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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=449783" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Stranger (story)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(story 03/14/11) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw a man coming down the road<br>Head held high, eyes were strong.<br>He stopped and asked of me<br>If he could have a bite to eat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His clothes were all torn and tattered<br>I asked him what was the matter.<br>He looked at me and his eyes turned down<br>His face changed from a smile to a frown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hard times I have come across<br>I was let go by my boss<br>He said the times was making him downsize<br>And he had to let go of people to survive.<br>Everyone was doing the same<br>People losing their jobs was quite a shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being a farmer who had hard times too<br>I knew exactly what he was going thru.<br>So I invited him inside to sit for a spell<br>For traveling these roads could really be hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was given some soup to take <br>the chill out of his bones<br>And was told by the farmer that he wasn’t alone.<br>He was then given some dinner to eat<br>To this man it was quite a treat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The farmer told him he could bathe and<br>stay the night - and if he wanted to leave<br>He could leave at first light.<br>He laid out some pajamas for him to wear<br>Even gave him some clean underwear.<br>The bed in the spare room was “ oh so nice”<br>And he slept peacefully throughout the night.<br>When he awoke there was breakfast on the table<br>Coffee, ham and eggs, and cream cheese on a bagel.<br>After having breakfast he felt like a new man<br>He looked for the farmer to shake his hand.<br>He thanked the farmer and asked him his name<br>He pointed to a wooden nameplate which said: <br>J. CHRISTHISSON- but some call me J.C.<br>He then told him he put a fresh set of clothes<br>On his backpack, turned around and didn’t look back.<br>So he put on his new clothes and out the door he went<br>Thinking that this man was heaven sent.<br>As he walked a mile down the road<br>He felt guilty that he didn’t thank him properly<br>For being so kind to a man in need.<br>He ran back to the farm house and knocked at the door<br>To be greeted by someone he had never saw.<br>“I am looking for the farmer who owns this place! ”<br>That would be me! What can I do for you? <br>He said: no! that can not be! It was a younger <br>Man, not as elderly with a beard and shoulder length hair.<br>He gave me dinner and invited me in, let me bathe<br>And to have a good nights sleep, then gave <br>Me these clothes and breakfast to eat.<br>I don’t see how here you could have stayed<br>When my wife and I were in another county far away.<br>But there has been stories going around<br>About someone helping people when their luck was down.<br>As he said that - the strangers back pack fell <br>to the ground, and he heard a clatter.<br>The man looked at him and asked what was the matter.<br>He opened his backpack and a wooden name plate fell to the ground<br>And broke in three- when he looked he could not believe what he saw.<br>The three parts said: J.CHRIST-HIS-SON<br>And a cross and rosary laid alongside with a note with one word.<br>  HOPE<br>Now who could this man have been?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louis+Rams">Louis Rams</a><div class=q>
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I saw a man coming down the road
Head held high, eyes were strong.
He stopped and asked of me
If he could have a bite to eat.

His clothes were all torn and tattered
I asked him what was the matter.
He looked at me and his eyes ..."></div>
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