Poetic ponies ...

... Frost's horse, Wilbur's ride by William Logan - The New Criterion. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Though it requires more strength than most Christians could muster, the couple refuse to act as if their lives were ruined by tragedy. This mysterious stranger, the instrument of fate or perhaps fate itself, must havewanted them to get down (no other conclusion fits the naiveté of their philosophy). If he had no motive, he must have his own Nemesis and his own employer. They have answered the God of Job with the forbearance of Christ.