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  "year": 1871,
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    "text": "As I watch’d the ploughman ploughing,",
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    "text": "Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harvesting,",
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    "text": "I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies;",
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    "text": "(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)",
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