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 "title": "Child Saved by Dog",
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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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    "text": "Johnston he is an engineer,",
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    "text": "He always looks if track is clear,",
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    "text": "For he hath a keen eagle eye,",
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    "text": "Danger afar he doth espy.",
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    "text": "And he hath too a warm true heart,",
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    "text": "Of others woes he shares a part;",
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    "text": "One day he gazed far down the line,",
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    "text": "And a large dog he could define.",
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    "text": "So eager busy on the track,",
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    "text": "In mouth it seemed to lift a pack,",
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    "text": "But it oftentimes did fail",
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    "text": "For to raise it o’er the rail.",
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    "text": "The engineer put on his steam",
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    "text": "And he loud made his whistle scream,",
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    "text": "So that the dog would take alarm",
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    "text": "And thus preserve his life from harm.",
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    "text": "This noble dog, it feared not danger,",
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    "text": "Fear to him it was a stranger,",
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    "text": "His mistress child he wished to save,",
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    "text": "And all the danger he would brave.",
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    "text": "His last great effort did prevail,",
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    "text": "He raised it safe beyond the rail,",
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    "text": "Into a snug and hollow spot,",
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    "text": "A place seem’d formed for a child’s cot.",
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    "text": "This dog of noble mastiff breed,",
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    "text": "For his own safety took no heed,",
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    "text": "But at approaching train did bark,",
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    "text": "To make them to his troubles hark.",
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    "text": "The engineer did sad bewail,",
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    "text": "To see the dog still on the rail,",
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    "text": "A moment more the beast is slain,",
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    "text": "Cut in two by the cruel train.",
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    "text": "The engineer now shuts off steam",
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    "text": "For to investigate the theme,",
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    "text": "That caused the dog to die at post,",
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    "text": "Finds to save child its life it lost.",
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    "text": "Faithful in the cause of duty,",
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    "text": "Saving life of little beauty,",
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    "text": "A little darling three year old,",
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    "text": "More precious than her weight in gold.",
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    "text": "On track she wandered for to play,",
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    "text": "But soon she in quiet slumber lay,",
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    "text": "And all the efforts of old Towser,",
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    "text": "Were not able to arouse her.",
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    "text": "The mother now in agony wild,",
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    "text": "Rushed down to train to find her child,",
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    "text": "There she found it sweetly sleeping,",
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    "text": "While some for faithful dog were weeping.",
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    "text": "And a brave man was engineer,",
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    "text": "For he himself knew not of fear,",
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    "text": "But his heart was filled with pain,",
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    "text": "Because the noble dog was slain.",
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