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 "title": "Windmills and Stone Stables",
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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)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Cows suffered in the days of old",
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    "text": "For want of water and from cold,",
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    "text": "Now of good water they have fill",
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    "text": "For it is pumped by the windmill.",
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    "text": "No matter how well cows were fed",
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   {
    "text": "They suffered cold in their board shed,",
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    "text": "But good stone walls now them enfold,",
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    "text": "And they are warm and safe from cold.",
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    "text": "Now they do enjoy their fodder,",
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   {
    "text": "And repay with their full udder,",
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   {
    "text": "If bran slops you on cow bestow",
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    "text": "Of milk it will increase the flow.",
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    "text": "And in your efforts do not halt",
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    "text": "But let them daily lick the salt,",
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    "text": "And never let the dogs them chase,",
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    "text": "But let them walk at their quiet pace.",
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