From horse's mouth

Stuck deep in mud
And tide over my head
I was counting my breaths

An fairy saved me from drowning
Yes, it was my own mistress struggling
Pushing the horse up so it doesn't stop breathing

She didn't run for her own life
When tide came high and wild
But kept my head lifted high

I wouldn't have been alive
Sinking and being sucked alive
But for her spirit that won't let me die

Help came but hours went by
When I was pulled out not dead but alive
She hugged me in love as minutes passed by

Pray lend an ear to what I say
Test the muddy waters before you wade
Time and tide are such that for none they wait

Yet there is something in life
For which one risks his own life
So that there be saved many other lives!