Poetry
A CONDUCTOR’S EPITAPH. The following odd inscription is on a monument erected in Louisville (U.S.) cemetery to the memory of James E. Valentine, a railroad conductor, who was killed in a collision in 1874: “ Until the brakes are turned on time, Life’s throttle valve shut down, He waits to pilot in the crew That wear a martyr’s crown. “ On schedule time, on upper grade. Along the homeward section, He lands his train in God’s x-ound-house The morn of resurrection. “ His time all full, no wages docked, His name on God’s pay-roll; And transportation through to Heaven — A free pass for his soul.”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 8, 20 May 1893, Page 3
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103Poetry Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 8, 20 May 1893, Page 3
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