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132 Your pony's worth his weight in gold,

Then calm your terrors, Betty Foy!

She's coming from among the trees,

And now all full in view she sees

Him whom she loves, her idiot boy.

And Betty sees the pony too:

Why stand you thus Good Betty Foy?

It is no goblin, 'tis no ghost,

'Tis he whom you so long have lost,

He whom you love, your idiot boy.

She looks again—her arms are up—

She screams—she cannot move for joy;

She darts as with a torrent's force,

She almost has o'erturned the horse,

And fast she holds her idiot boy.