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 "title": "Conquered by a Child",
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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": "A gent and lady take a trip",
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    "text": "Along Pacific coast in ship,",
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    "text": "And with them is little daughter,",
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    "text": "For she doth enjoy the water.",
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    "text": "The little maiden is adored",
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    "text": "By all the sailors are aboard;",
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   {
    "text": "The wheelsman often child did coax",
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    "text": "To go up with him to his box.",
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    "text": "And she is a great favorite too",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Among the whole of the deck crew;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On lower deck was strange cargo,",
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   {
    "text": "Three men chained on way to Fargo.",
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   {
    "text": "They are ruffians desperate,",
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    "text": "And law and order both they hate,",
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    "text": "But conquered by this little child,",
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    "text": "Who talked to them and on them smiled.",
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    "text": "These men, though they were bound in chains,",
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    "text": "They soon forgot their rage and pains,",
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    "text": "And felt she was an angel, sent",
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    "text": "For to request them to repent.",
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   {
    "text": "Sheriff with pistols in his hand,",
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   {
    "text": "O’er those men lie held command;",
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   {
    "text": "But vessel struck ’gainst sunken rock",
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    "text": "And child went o’erboard with the shock.",
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    "text": "Bill Jones, though chained hand and foot,",
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   {
    "text": "Cried, “Sheriff please now do not shoot,",
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    "text": "And little darling I will save",
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    "text": "From sinking in a watery grave.”",
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   {
    "text": "His hands and feet they both were tied,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet danger all he bold defied;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It seems the Lord doth efforts bless,",
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   {
    "text": "With teeth he seized the child by dress,",
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    "text": "And held her head above the wave",
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    "text": "’Till rescue comes them both to save;",
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   {
    "text": "All on board were glad to see",
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   {
    "text": "The sheriff set brave Bill Jones free.",
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