Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-13 | Page 10 | Wille Gee

I Willie Gee GeeBy I L I By Oscar L 5 H HAVE SAVE AVE yo e heard beard y ye landsmen o of j Willie Gee Gc I Who ho lived JIved in a ham bamboo boo hut b by the sea By the banks hanl o of or the southern ocean wide J Vh Where re pirates bold us used d to abide J Such a queer sort ort of ot name is Willie Ge i i It doesn't mean much to you or to me Yet th the lad Ind who bears this curious name namo Was Wa ax blown to sea In a hurricane i iA A mongoose wild ild a crow or two l These were hI his passengers and ero crow 1 On the tree treo that served ed as a 0 boat For days das on old ocean ho l kept ept afloat I S SA A cocoanut green re n his only food tood 1 I wot It must have tasted good I A shirt his only habiliment And that wa was vas probably bad badly rent f Thus he held his own on this frail fraU float of ot such as ho that the poet wrote And And thus ho he waited serene content f Until the storm Its fury tury spent Tho They Thoy picked him up asleep but hut alive And a n. drink or two to did soon revive This hero of ot so flO o 1 strange n. n talo tale Who ho safely rodo rode the raging Sal gale O 0 ye yo who ho old ocean have hac never seen en Except on a summers summer's day serene Think of ot the woes of the thc southern isle isit Ever at the merc mercy of ot Neptune's Who ho fought the gale the sea eca the tb theE E storm to rm Where the un is HOT not nol oni WARM WAn 1 Then think of the land wherein Ij 1 dwell d vell Where year ear b by year ear alt all Well And nd you who think that your lives at ate are naught Remember the story the deep hat taught Recall this child saved from the sea The wonderful youngster illIc Gc Gee