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Kilner's Bridge
Cadeby 2012
A spit of rain is in the breeze
blossom sparse on hawthorn trees
trumpets sound and banners fly as
out of distance marching by
along the road their forbears took
they pass me by with scarce a look
Some heads bowed some heads held
high for some a tear will start
as by the banks of Don and Dearne the long line
reaches over Kilner's Bridge
Slow bells ring out ninety-one
marking those whose work was done with
darkness of eternal night
time-faded memory never would
repair the hurt of those who stood
where I now stand
Too proud to cry I look instead to crags
on high above the town to Conanby
where crows wheel down
and over Kilner's Bridge
For William Humphries, Cadeby Rescue
Team and the ninety-one lives lost in the
Cadeby Pit Disaster of June 1912