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 "title": "When to Sell Grain and Farm Produce",
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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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    "text": "Grain it should be sold in the fall",
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   {
    "text": "Even if the price it should be small,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For if you keep it till the spring",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sometimes a less price it doth bring.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "For grain with whole world doth compete,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You cannot raise the price of wheat,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then at once you should embark it",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On its way to world’s market.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "We hope our views you don’t despise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For grain doth shrink in weight and size,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If you sell wheat you can get gold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Retain it, damp may make it mould.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Remember too that of your wheat",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The rats of it will fondly eat,",
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   {
    "text": "Sell it and money then invest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And you can get good interest.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "The same remarks apply to cheese,",
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   {
    "text": "It shrinks and frosts make it to freeze,",
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   {
    "text": "Then careful man you have to hire",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At great expense to keep up fire.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "If you your produce quick do move,",
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   {
    "text": "The business soon it will improve,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And then mankind will you bless",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For alleviating their distress.",
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   {
    "text": "And it pays best to sell each pig,",
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   {
    "text": "Plump and young, not old, fat and big,",
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   {
    "text": "Young and tender now’s the vogue",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Either in cattle or in hog.",
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