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 "title": "Help in Need",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "A poor man’s horse it ran away,",
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   {
    "text": "Soon man upon the roadside lay,",
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    "text": "With his leg all badly broken,",
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    "text": "Of sympathy some gave token.",
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    "text": "One said your trouble grieves my heart,",
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   {
    "text": "But with his money would not part,",
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   {
    "text": "Another said, while heaving sighs,",
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    "text": "It brings the tears into mine eyes.",
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    "text": "But a good true hearted man,",
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   {
    "text": "His heart with kindness it o’er ran,",
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    "text": "The poorest man among the three,",
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    "text": "A pound he did contribute free.",
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    "text": "Others gave in empty feeling,",
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    "text": "But this poor man he did bring healing,",
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    "text": "The giver only Lord doth prize,",
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    "text": "Who helps afflicted for to rise.",
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