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 "id": "james-mcintyre/love-in-a-snowdrift",
 "title": "Love in a Snowdrift",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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 "first_published": {
  "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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  "sources": [
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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": "One winter day in snow-bound train,",
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   {
    "text": "In drift we stuck in State of Maine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It happened near a village small,",
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   {
    "text": "And near the track was public hall.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "The passengers did all complain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of these fierce blizzards blow in Maine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With snow plough they had striven all day,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But found they could not make headway.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "The weary hours brought grief and pain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To many on that trip in Maine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On me the passengers they call",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To lecture to them in the hall.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And the next morning I felt vain,",
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   {
    "text": "When a young man, belonged to Maine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Warmly thanked me for my lecture,",
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   {
    "text": "“Well pleased with it,” was my conjecture.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "He said it gave him chance to gain",
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   {
    "text": "The heart of finest girl in Maine;",
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   {
    "text": "When to the hall you all resorted,",
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   {
    "text": "The sweet girl in car I courted.",
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   {
    "text": "My vanity at first was slain.",
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   {
    "text": "But when the young man there in Maine",
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    "text": "Asked me to wed him to his Jane,",
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   {
    "text": "I felt the snow drift was a gain.",
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