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198 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.

And Johnny burrs, and laughs aloud,

Whether in cunning or in joy

I cannot tell; but while he laughs,

Betty a drunken pleasure quaffs

To hear again her Idiot Boy.

And now she's at the Pony's tail,

And now she's at the Pony's head,—

On that side now, and now on this;

And, almost stifled with her bliss,

A few sad tears does Betty shed.