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 "title": "Good-Bye and Keep Cold",
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    "text": "This saying good-bye on the edge of the dark",
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   {
    "text": "And cold to an orchard so young in the bark",
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    "text": "Reminds me of all that can happen to harm",
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    "text": "An orchard away at the end of the farm",
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    "text": "All winter, cut off by a hill from the house.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I don’t want it girdled by rabbit and mouse,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I don’t want it dreamily nibbled for browse",
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   {
    "text": "By deer, and I don’t want it budded by grouse.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(If certain it wouldn’t be idle to call",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I’d summon grouse, rabbit, and deer to the wall",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And warn them away with a stick for a gun.)",
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   {
    "text": "I don’t want it stirred by the heat of the sun.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(We made it secure against being, I hope,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By setting it out on a northerly slope.)",
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   {
    "text": "No orchard’s the worse for the wintriest storm;",
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   {
    "text": "But one thing about it, it mustn’t get warm.",
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   {
    "text": "“How often already you’ve had to be told,",
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    "text": "Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold.",
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   {
    "text": "Dread fifty above more than fifty below.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I have to be gone for a season or so.",
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   {
    "text": "My business awhile is with different trees,",
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   {
    "text": "Less carefully nourished, less fruitful than these,",
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   {
    "text": "And such as is done to their wood with an axe⁠—",
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    "text": "Maples and birches and tamaracks.",
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   {
    "text": "I wish I could promise to lie in the night",
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   {
    "text": "And think of an orchard’s arboreal plight",
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   {
    "text": "When slowly (and nobody comes with a light)",
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   {
    "text": "Its heart sinks lower under the sod.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But something has to be left to God.",
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