{
 "id": "james-mcintyre/the-flood-on-the-creek",
 "title": "The Flood on the Creek",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "James McIntyre",
 "poet_slug": "james-mcintyre",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
 "book_slug": "poems-of-james-mcintyre",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": 95,
 "container": null,
 "epigraph": null,
 "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.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_11791"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/james-mcintyre_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_09542",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36068",
   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_11791"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 20,
  "n_stanzas": 5,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 37,
  "max_indent": 0
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "Almost broken was the lyre",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "In the hands of bard McIntyre,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Who long had mused beside the stream,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Till rudely wakened from his dream.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The waters high in each dam pent,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Rushed furious when they found vent;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Through the flood gates opened wide",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Madly raged the foaming tide.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "He heard the waters awful dash,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And he heard his warehouse crash,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And saw the waves in wild commotion",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Bearing his stock to the ocean.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Now thanks he gives unto each friend,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Who a helping hand did lend;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With gratitude they did inspire",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The heart-felt thanks of McIntyre.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Old friends and new he’ll gladly meet",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "On the west side of Thames street,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Where he has a foundation sure,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And a good stock of furniture.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
 ]
}