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 "title": "The Rescue",
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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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    "text": "In a deep cleft among the hills",
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    "text": "There flows one of those mountain rills;",
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    "text": "In fine weather a scene of charms,",
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    "text": "But in a storm ’tis all alarms.",
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    "text": "And woe befalls those seek to trudge,",
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    "text": "And strive to cross its rustic bridge;",
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    "text": "The roadway it becomes deep rut,",
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    "text": "And spot is named the babies’ cut.",
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   {
    "text": "Minister’s only child had died,",
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   {
    "text": "And the poor father mourned and sighed,",
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   {
    "text": "And found no rest when child was buried,",
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    "text": "Grave robbers then mourners worried.",
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    "text": "About the middle of first night",
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    "text": "The preacher woke in a great fright,",
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    "text": "For there raged a furious storm,",
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    "text": "And he thought he saw the form",
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    "text": "Of his sweet child alive in grave.",
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    "text": "Shall he the rain aod lightning brave",
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    "text": "Or humble submit and kiss the rod,",
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    "text": "Obedient to the will of God?",
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    "text": "Shall he who others tries to fill",
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    "text": "With resignation to God’s will,",
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    "text": "Forget the precepts he has taught,",
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    "text": "And at once set them all at naught?",
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    "text": "But he rushed to burial ground,",
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    "text": "And to his wonder there he found",
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    "text": "Men with a light who quick as dart,",
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    "text": "Did throw a bundle in their cart.",
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    "text": "Then at a furious race they drove,",
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    "text": "But clergyman impelled by love",
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    "text": "For his dear child, did quickly follow,",
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    "text": "And o’ertook them in the hollow,",
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    "text": "Where lightning flashed and thunder roared,",
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    "text": "And the stream with fury poured;",
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   {
    "text": "Here the preacher shouted wild,",
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    "text": "“Give me back my darling child.”",
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    "text": "The horse affrighted plunged in river,",
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    "text": "And the men were lost forever;",
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    "text": "The minister he heard the crash",
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    "text": "As ’gainst the broken bridge they dash.",
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    "text": "But though a great storm did prevail,",
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    "text": "Yet he heard a sad human wail,",
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    "text": "Sound coming from the bridge’s rack,",
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    "text": "He climbed o’er timber and found sack.",
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    "text": "Then his heart got reconciled,",
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    "text": "Sack proved to hold his darling child;",
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    "text": "The parents’ joy who can tell,",
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    "text": "To find their child alive and well.",
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    "text": "Child had been buried in a swoon,",
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    "text": "Next danger was that it might drown;",
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    "text": "But Providence on parents smiled,",
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    "text": "And they were blessed with their child.",
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