# Looking for a children's poem, probably from the 20s

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**Created:** [November 26, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-childrens-poem-probably-from-the-20s/332813 "2005-11-26T17:22:09Z")\
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My mother keeps trying to remember a poem my dead father learned as a child and liked to recite on occasion. I’ve already tried google and several poetry indexed by the first line books & websites without luck, so this is a last, faint shot. Most likely it was some 4-line filler in a magazine and not worthy of being anthologized.

Anyway.

She’s pretty sure of the first two lines:

I have a snowplow airplane,  
It goes a mile a minute,  
And the remainder is something to the sense that when the snow falls the streets and such already plowed clear.

Anyone?