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Where Jenmiie, the watch, spent his useful life
Witli a lovely child «itd a loving wife,
Naught now ca-ne their peace to mat
Worse than a swift train's rumbling jar.

To fame unknown, but to madman dear,
For Jem mi e tine! watdicc’ from year to year—
And more than once did his vigil save
A train and Its lives from a waterv srrave,
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Since broken in purse and form at the mill
He worked on crutches— a good watch still ■

“ Hark ! ’Tis the train ! " The mother’s ear
Leans to the sound; then a mortal fear
Freeze* her veins— she sees not hor child!
"Oh, darling! Oh, Maggie!” in accents wild.
She starts from the hut— now feeling the way,
11 Keep Maggie in when the trains go by

She strains her eyes out toward the creek,
Where up the track, wjth an ashen cheek,
Hobbled the watch— one pointed crutch
Where Maggie lay in the engine's clutch—■
The w iking flowers across her breast;
She'd wearied to sleep in their eager quest,

lfSave her, Mary ! For God’.1; sake run ! "
Came Jemmies voice like a signal gun;
The mother sprang like a startled deer,
Rut the rushing train was now too near—
She saw, and swooned with a piercing shriek
That echoed afar o’er the winding creek ;

Ay, pierced the boom romid the curve so near,
And smote on the ear of the engineer ;