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 "id": "james-mcintyre/spanish-donkey",
 "title": "Spanish Donkey",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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 "container": null,
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "sources": [
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "In Spain full oft the little donkey",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is misehievous as a monkey,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But Spanish peasant owned a prize,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A donkey was both strong and wise.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Peasant drove him each day to town,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sold his milk both up and down;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And where his customers did dwell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The peasant he did ring door bell.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But he was struck down by fever,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And he was a strong believer",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That the donkey milk could sell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And at each house would pull the bell.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "It really did turn out that way,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "House without bell for them he’d bray;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And allowed the Spanishers",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To unload his panniers.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "When the town’s Mayor did hear the news,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He said no one must beast abuse;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And each measure out milk honest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And truly they all acted just.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "So thus the donkey milk did sell",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Until the peasant he got well,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And we are happy for to say,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each for his milk did honest pay.",
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