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Bargery Number 580
Music (Given or Suggested) Poem
Printer or Publisher Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants
Author T. Yvoune
Earliest Date 1898
Evidence for Earliest Date The Railway Review printed many topical pieces. This was probably written soon before publication.
Latest Date 1898
Evidence for Latest Date Publication date
Source of Text Railway Review, 24th June 1898, p10
Roud Not in the Roud Index
Parsed Title Laborare Est Ovare
First Line Down from the engine thrown,
Comments on Song Many railway workers were killed and injured in the course of their work. The poem reads as though it was inspired by a real event.
Source Title Laborare Est Ovare
Other Imprints No other imprints found

Laborare Est Ovare

[Note 580.1]

Down from the engine thrown,
Wounded to death,
What were the words he spoke
With his last breath?

Was it a cry for aid,
Helpless lying
There in the rain—meet help
For the dying ?

Nay, he had words to speak
Whate’er betide,
"Signal the down express "
Gasped he and died

Done that he had to do,
What shall be said ?
Silence is best—what words
Meet for this dead?

 

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Laborare Est Ovare

bar580: Dates 1898~1898|

Eulogy for a footplate-man killed by a fall from the locomotive.

Thomas Port, Epitaph of

bar299: Dates ----~1838|

Epitaph of Thomas Port killed by a railway train in 1838

Only a Pointsman

bar565: Dates 1888~1888|

A pointsman is killed by a passing train:-

First Break

bat747: Dates 1862~1878|

A mother's grief for a son killed by a locomotive.

Behind Time

bar694: Dates 1862~1878|

A driver is killed and the Fireman takes over to drive the train

Blood on the Wheel

bar692: Dates 1862~1877|

A bride to be is killed by a locomotive driven by her prospective husband.

First Foot

bar746: Dates 1862~1877|

A woman recollects the death of her railwayman son, run down by a train.

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