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 "title": "Broken Raft Adventure",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
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    "text": "A man on Nova Scotian Bay",
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    "text": "On broken raft was borne away,",
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    "text": "Right out on the open sea",
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   {
    "text": "Where the storm did blow so free,",
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   {
    "text": "No shelter from the wind or wave",
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   {
    "text": "He thought the gulf would be his grave,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He had no food life to sustain,",
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   {
    "text": "He laid him down there to remain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What happened he did know no more,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But old man on Prince Edward’s shore",
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   {
    "text": "Saw raft drifting near his shed",
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   {
    "text": "And thought the poor man was quite dead,",
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   {
    "text": "He called for help and soon they bore",
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   {
    "text": "His lifeless body to the shore,",
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   {
    "text": "But old man he did them desire",
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   {
    "text": "To place the body near the fire,",
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    "text": "And wrap it up in blankets warm,",
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   {
    "text": "Which did act like to a charm,",
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   {
    "text": "And soon the breath it did return,",
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   {
    "text": "With gratitude his heart did burn,",
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   {
    "text": "To think he was again restored",
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    "text": "Unto his friends whom he adored.",
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