Tudalen:Tanchwa ofnadwy yn Abersychan - 180 wedi eu llad; Terrible explosion at Abersychan, 180 lives lost (IA wg35-2-4675).pdf/4

Early on the morn of 'Thursday,
Sixth of February the date,—
Long will that day be remembered
For our present mournful state!
With the early dawn the colliers
Journeyed to the daily task;
Little dreamed the wives and children
That this day would be their last.

Young men to the work were going,
There to earn their daily broad,
Husbands toiled for wife and children-
Now, alas they're lying dead.
For that morning an explosion
Raged in Llanerch Colliery,
Causing some to die in torments,
Others for their life to flee.

Between eight and nine that morning
Noise like thunder sounded round,
Up the shaft the blast came roaring,
Shaking all the solid ground;
To the pit in wildest terror
Wives and children ran with speed,
There to learn the cruel tidings
Caused by fire's hasty deed.

Soon the awful news was made known—
One hundred and eighty hurled
Without warning, oi a sudden,
To another far off world!
One by one the bodies came up
From the dreadful pit below,
And were carried by the mourners
To their homes with grief and woe.

Words cannot describe the feelings
Of the widows left alone,
Without husband kind to guard them,
And protect the humble home.
May the Lord support and strengthen
Those beneath affliction's load,
Till they meet again their loved ones.
In that happy bleat Abode!