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Till naught is heard stive a deafening jar,
As the train speeds on like a shooting slar.
With a lengthening trail like a smoky pall
Whose writhing folds envelop all.

11 Stoke up l’F snouts Bill* the engineer ;
“ We must rush this tirade and Che bottom c!c-ir
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With a monstrous bulge, to pull up hill
T ’ other side— heavy train.’1 “ Ail right, B ill! "
And the coal went in and the throttle out.
’‘Watch vo’ side the curvc I’7 from Bill with a shout.

Ad own the grade with open throttle
They svvjfUy glide as a fiyiflg shuttle—-
Weaving in streaks oi' green and gray,
The -warp and woof’ of bush and day,
Wliiie steam and smoke and d'.ist behind
Term mottled clouds in Lhe tortured wind.

Through the cut and into the vale—
Across the trestle that spans the swale;
There the willows swirl, and the rank weeds sv.-iy,
And the heron starts with a shriek away—
Blown from her course— a shrill refrain.
'Mid the whirling gusts of the rlysng- trdn.

Beyond the curve this side the hill,
There runs a creek—by the old saw-mill—
A covered bridge ;md a water tank,
With the '.val.chtaan's shanty on this bank:
A quiet nook, for the mill is done.—
With crippled Jemmie it ceased to run.

Just round the curve in the shady wood
Thai fringes the creek, his low hut stood