Page 131 - Adventure Magazine, 1921, July 18th

SYMPATHY

by Berton Braley

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LD Father Noah, who built the Ark- ,)
O While people called him a crazy mark-
He didn't fashion that ship, I'll bet,
Wholly because of the coming wet;
But down in his heart was a restless glow
That made him tickled to death to go-;
And as he hammered on frame and keel
He felt exactly the way I feel!

And when Ulysses sailed home from Troy
I'll venture to say that the sly old boy,
Although he talked of his native ·1oam,
Was in;i o hurry to beat it home.
He loafed and idled and stopp~d for sport
At many an unfamiliar port,
And, as the Odyssee will reveal,
He felt exactly the way I feel!

Now Chris Columbus and all his crew
Had "scientific results" in view-
Or so we're told-when they sailed away
And thus discovered the U. S. A.
But I think a bit of the wander-flame
Got into their bosoms just the same,
And they answered the surging sea's appeal
And felt exactly the way I feel!

Now all brave pirates and buccaneers,
And rollicking sailors of other years,. "
And those descended from such as they
Who roamed from Liverpool to Bombay;
In hrief, all those who have known thesea,
Her lure of wonder and mystery,
Which binds with fetters as strong as steel,
Have felt exactly the way I feel!

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