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 "title": "Lost Son Found",
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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": "An English ship when homeward bound,",
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   {
    "text": "Near to its port was shipwrecked found,",
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   {
    "text": "For it had struck a sunken rock,",
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    "text": "And was slowly sinking from the shock.",
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   {
    "text": "In port they quick did man life boat,",
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   {
    "text": "Which o’er tempestuous sea did float,",
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   {
    "text": "They rescued all the crew, save one,",
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    "text": "And were content with what they done.",
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    "text": "But they had not their captain, Harry,",
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    "text": "Who on the shore was forced to tarry,",
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   {
    "text": "And knew not of the disaster,",
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    "text": "So crew had worked without a master.",
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    "text": "But when he heard of the shipwreck,",
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    "text": "And that a man was left on deck,",
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    "text": "He quickly hurried the boat’s crew",
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    "text": "For to again attempt his rescue.",
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    "text": "But earnestly his old mother,",
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    "text": "Reminded him of his lost brother,",
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    "text": "Perhaps drowned in foreign sea,",
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    "text": "She cried, son, stay and comfort me.",
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    "text": "But wreck they reach and rescue man,",
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    "text": "And thrill of joy o’er city ran,",
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    "text": "When it was found ’twas Harry’s brother,",
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    "text": "Had returned to comfort mother.",
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    "text": "Thus providence rewards the brave",
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    "text": "Who strive their fellow men to save,",
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    "text": "The mother’s griefs it did assuage,",
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   {
    "text": "And happy now is her old age.",
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