Child and Horse + 

A mother driving out with child, + 

When the storm it blew so wild; + 

So keen the cold the mother felt, + 

She went to house to get a quilt. + 

And her little girl she snug lay + 

In the bottom of the buggy, + 

But as the horse it was not tied, + 

At a dog it got terrified. + 

And off it ran with the dear child, + 

Leaving mother in anguish wild; + 

She tried to follow up the horse, + 

But soon she got on the wrong course. + 

She searched all day, but found no trace, + 

’Till faint and weary with her pace; + 

And as the day draws to a close, + 

She fears her child it will be froze, + 

If she is not dashed to pieces + 

By the runaway, so vicious: + 

A horrid night the mother spent, + 

And many a prayer to Heaven sent, + 

That the Lord would save her dear child + 

From her numerous dangers wild; + 

It plainly shows the Lord did hear, + 

And spared the life of infant dear. + 

For it so happened that next day + 

Some boys who in the woods did play, + 

In place well sheltered by the trees + 

Where but slightly it did freeze, + 

These youths there found the buggy, + 

And horse it there beside it lay + 

With the child beside its breast, + 

It seemed as if it child caressed. + 

So lovingly within its arm, + 

As if protecting it from harm. + 

The mother came and thanked the Lord + 

That her lost child was now restored. + 

And even the runaway horse, + 

From his race was none the worse; + 

The beast the family highly prize + 

For its care of child so wise. + 

It seem’d as if little deary, + 

Of the buggy had grown weary; + 

And when the horse lay down to rest + 

She went and lay upon its breast. + 

While mother she was in alarm, + 

Her child was sleeping snug and warm; + 

The lesson we must learn from thence, + 

Is for to trust in Providence. + 