<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415987" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Adventure on a Raft</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The following adventure happened in the experience of an <br>Ingersoll man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">' Truth is strange, stranger than fiction.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A man rafting down the river,<br>Time he will remember ever, <br>He shouted, ' Pole, the raft to land, <br>Or we'll be wrecked upon the strand.'<br>But captain gave him a reply<br>That all danger he would defy ;<br>But, in another moment more<br>Part was wrecked upon the shore<br>Of a Nova Scotian bay ; <br>The other half was borne away.<br>Enough to make a person shiver,<br>Man was drifted out of river,<br>All alone on the broken raft,<br>Driven where e'er the wind did waft ;<br>Right out on the open sea,<br>Where the storm did blow so free.<br>No shelter from the wind or wave,<br>He thought the gulf would be his grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had no food, life to sustain,<br>He laid him down, there to remain.<br>What happened he did know no more,<br>But old man on Prince Edwards shore,<br>While gazing through his good spy glass,<br>' What do I see?' he cried, ' Alas !<br>Some poor man, and I fear he's dead,<br>Drifting to my humble shed.'<br>The body acted like a sail,<br>And wafted raft before the gale;<br>He called on men to man a boat,<br>And quickly crew had it afloat,<br>And in haste full soon they bore<br>His lifeless body to the shore.<br>But old man did them then desire<br>To place body near the fire,<br>And wrap it up in blankets warm-<br>Which did act like to a charm- <br>soon the breath it did return.<br>With gratitude his heart did burn,<br>To think he was again restored<br>Unto his friends, whom he adored;<br>But worse misfortunes him befell,<br>Yet he bears up 'neath troubles well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415987" data-title="Adventure on a Raft de James McIntyre" data-description="The following adventure happened in the experience of an Ingersoll man. ' Truth is strange, stranger than fiction.' A man rafting down the river, Time he will remember ever, He shouted, ' Pole, the raft to land, Or we'll be wrecked upon the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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