Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-10-13
"NAY, rLL STAY WITH THE LAD.u
By HERMAN MER1vALE.

lin Hutton seam, No. 8, they saw two bodies, faith
er and son, clasped together. One Of the explorer
knew the man: and knew that after the explosion h
to along with him to another part of the worknRt
and the father replied, Nay, I'll stay with the lad
1t the belief Of the explorers that these had bot
damp. They were lying peaceably; having mad
pillows Of their Jackets and enthusiastically Ne,r.
Sept. 11th]
NAY, III stay with the lad:
Down IN tho deep, black seam.
Huddled together, dying and dead,
Far from the day world overhead,
Face to face, by sudden fate.
With horror of night precipitate;
Hidden away from the merciful sun,
The death and burial all in one,
by their tiftes cut Off in vain
More than battle counts its slain;
Huddlcd together man and horse,
lu the grip of the fire damp's watchful FORCE
Insung heroes Of simple mould,
All unchanged from the race of old,
To the oiden truth, with martyrs cry,
Out of the depths they testify:
And never has re1e been read, deem,
Nober than that in deep, black seam,
Of Love and Courage the message sad,-
Only, I" Nay, I'll stay with the lad
''Nay, III stay with the ]ad:''
Down in the deep, black seam,
They found him living, and strong, and sound,
In spite Of the terror underground;
And they babe him come and live again
In the ight-bright haunts Of living men,
And once more look the sun in the face,
And gladden. in earth's beloved embrace.
But he looked at his young boy, dead or dying,
In the midst Of the shattered fragments lying
Dying or dead-but powerless to move
At the help OF man, or the voice Of Love,
And self lay dead where the child must die,
And he let deliverance pass him by;
He saw his duty straight before
In love that liveth for evermore,
And he put the protfered freedom behind,
With never thought of self in mind;
And to life or to death run the trackless stream,
He stayed with him in the deep, black seam,
4 brave one,-"Nay, nj stay With the lad.a
may, III stay with the lad:
o,,., Down in the deep, black seam
Once again was the story told
Old 90 Honor, as Poesy,Oll;
And the rugged miner, whose cares might be
Some hing unknown to you or to me,
Rather than leave his boy below,
Alone in the grip of the lurking foe,
Chose to die with him there and then,
Rather than live with fellow-men;
S'noothed the pillow the child beneath,
Turned with him to the void of Death,
And to all mankind, in it's strong self-love.
Taught the unself proclaimed above;
And whate'e his sin, and whate'er his sorrow,
Chose the night without earthly morrow
Went to his Maker straight and free;
And pleaded his plea courageously;
For his boy he lived, for his boy he died;
And the two together, side by side,
Before the divine eternal Throne
Had nothing to plead but their love alone
And there, perchancc, from the answer prove
That the greatest wisdom of all is Love.
Self be hushe6l, while in places high
The many pass thought Of others by
Let others stare. and let others bear
The woes that heset us everywhere,-
So the great be but free from the curse Of dearth,
Sc the great but gather the fruits of the earth,
50 property flourish, and riches thrive,
And keep but the wording S life alive,
What is it to them that these grave things be?
That these sights are given to all who will see?
While wealth may prosper, denial dream,
Lfes moral is told in the Deep black seam;
And angels rejoice in that answer glad
And human" Nay, III stay with the lad