{"date":"September 17","id":"09-17","intro":["“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been.’” On this theme Whittier based the story of a fair farmer girl and a rich judge."],"minutes":15,"readings":[{"author":"John Greenleaf Whittier","end":1364,"start":1351,"volume":42,"work":"Poems"}],"slug":"september-17","status":"proofread","title":"Romance on a New England Farm","url":"/harvard-classics/september-17/","words":2962}