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The One Hoss Shay

The One Hoss Shay With Its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train

Oliver Wendell Holmes — 1893
The poem "The Deacon's masterpiece," a satire on Calvinism, paints a whimsical picture of a "one-hoss" shay that was so perfectly built that it lasted for 100 years and then fell apart all at once.
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