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 "id": "james-mcintyre/child-and-horse",
 "title": "Child and Horse",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "A mother driving out with child,",
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   {
    "text": "When the storm it blew so wild;",
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   {
    "text": "So keen the cold the mother felt,",
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   {
    "text": "She went to house to get a quilt.",
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    "text": "And her little girl she snug lay",
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   {
    "text": "In the bottom of the buggy,",
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   {
    "text": "But as the horse it was not tied,",
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   {
    "text": "At a dog it got terrified.",
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   {
    "text": "And off it ran with the dear child,",
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   {
    "text": "Leaving mother in anguish wild;",
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   {
    "text": "She tried to follow up the horse,",
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    "text": "But soon she got on the wrong course.",
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   {
    "text": "She searched all day, but found no trace,",
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   {
    "text": "’Till faint and weary with her pace;",
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    "text": "And as the day draws to a close,",
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    "text": "She fears her child it will be froze,",
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   {
    "text": "If she is not dashed to pieces",
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    "text": "By the runaway, so vicious:",
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   {
    "text": "A horrid night the mother spent,",
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   {
    "text": "And many a prayer to Heaven sent,",
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    "text": "That the Lord would save her dear child",
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    "text": "From her numerous dangers wild;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It plainly shows the Lord did hear,",
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   {
    "text": "And spared the life of infant dear.",
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   {
    "text": "For it so happened that next day",
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   {
    "text": "Some boys who in the woods did play,",
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   {
    "text": "In place well sheltered by the trees",
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   {
    "text": "Where but slightly it did freeze,",
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    "text": "These youths there found the buggy,",
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   {
    "text": "And horse it there beside it lay",
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   {
    "text": "With the child beside its breast,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It seemed as if it child caressed.",
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    "text": "So lovingly within its arm,",
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   {
    "text": "As if protecting it from harm.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The mother came and thanked the Lord",
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   {
    "text": "That her lost child was now restored.",
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    "text": "And even the runaway horse,",
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    "text": "From his race was none the worse;",
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    "text": "The beast the family highly prize",
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    "text": "For its care of child so wise.",
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    "text": "It seem’d as if little deary,",
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    "text": "Of the buggy had grown weary;",
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    "text": "And when the horse lay down to rest",
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    "text": "She went and lay upon its breast.",
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    "text": "While mother she was in alarm,",
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    "text": "Her child was sleeping snug and warm;",
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   {
    "text": "The lesson we must learn from thence,",
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   {
    "text": "Is for to trust in Providence.",
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