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 "title": "Prophecy of a Ten Ton Cheese",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Who hath prophetic vision sees",
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   {
    "text": "In future times a ten ton cheese,",
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   {
    "text": "Several companies could join",
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    "text": "To furnish curd for great combine",
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    "text": "More honor far than making gun",
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    "text": "Of mighty size and many a ton.",
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    "text": "Machine it could be made with ease",
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    "text": "That could turn this monster cheese,",
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    "text": "The greatest honour to our land",
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   {
    "text": "Would be this orb of finest brand,",
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   {
    "text": "Three hundred curd they would need squeeze",
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   {
    "text": "For to make this mammoth cheese.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "So British lands could confederate",
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    "text": "Three hundred provinces in one state,",
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   {
    "text": "When all in harmony agrees",
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    "text": "To be pressed in one like this cheese,",
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    "text": "Then one skillful hand could acquire",
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    "text": "Power to move British empire.",
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   {
    "text": "But various curds must be combined",
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   {
    "text": "And each factory their curd must grind,",
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    "text": "To blend harmonious in one",
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   {
    "text": "This great cheese of mighty span,",
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   {
    "text": "And uniform in quality",
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    "text": "A glorious reality.",
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   {
    "text": "But it will need a powerful press",
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    "text": "This cheese queen to caress,",
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   {
    "text": "And a large extent of charms",
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   {
    "text": "Hoop will encircle in its arms,",
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   {
    "text": "And we do not now despair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But we shall see it at world’s fair.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And view the people all agog, so",
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   {
    "text": "Excited o’er it in Chicago,",
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   {
    "text": "To seek fresh conquests queen of cheese",
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   {
    "text": "She may sail across the seas,",
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   {
    "text": "Where she would meet reception grand",
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   {
    "text": "From the warm hearts in old England.",
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