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 "title": "November Cotton Flower",
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    "text": "Boll-weevil’s coming, and the winter’s cold,",
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    "text": "Made cotton-stalks look rusty, seasons old,",
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    "text": "And cotton, scarce as any southern snow,",
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   {
    "text": "Was vanishing; the branch, so pinched and slow,",
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   {
    "text": "Failed in its function as the autumn rake;",
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   {
    "text": "Drouth fighting soil had caused the soil to take",
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   {
    "text": "All water from the streams; dead birds were found",
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   {
    "text": "In wells a hundred feet below the ground⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Such was the season when the flower bloomed.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Old folks were startled, and it soon assumed",
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   {
    "text": "Significance. Superstition saw",
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   {
    "text": "Something it had never seen before:",
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    "text": "Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear,",
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    "text": "Beauty so sudden for that time of year.",
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