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100	1		_aGracie, Thomas Grierson, _d1861-1938
245	1	0	_aSongs and rhymes of a lead miner
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-08-26
508			_aAl Haines
520			_a"Songs and rhymes of a lead miner" by Thomas Grierson Gracie is a collection of poems and songs written in the early 20th century. The volume evokes the work, landscape, and community life of Wanlockhead and the Lowther Hills, told in Scots dialect and plainspoken English. It mingles nature sketches, mining-life vignettes, village customs, and music-making with elegies and patriotic verses shaped by the Great War. Expect intimate local color, moral reflections, and occasional humor from a miner-musician’s point of view. The opening of the collection begins with a candid preface in which the author recounts a hard childhood in Wanlockhead, years as a lead and coal miner, his love of the fiddle, and his turn to rhyming during wartime, stressing that he writes for ordinary folk and thanking local editors and friends. It then moves through descriptive pieces: moonlit winter vistas over the Lowthers that prompt a prayer for peace, comic and lively accounts of fishing trips and a grouse meet, a breathless otter hunt, a graveside procession, and lyrical walks along Mennock Burn and the Heights of Glendyne. Village life and memory follow—an old-time wedding, affection for a family wall clock amid modern inventions, a satire of a sour “Curmudgeon,” praise of local rivers and a memorial seat—before a series of in memoriam poems for townsfolk and soldiers, tributes to volunteers, and a tender lament for a pit pony. The Songs section mixes nostalgia and courtship with mining humor (“Level No. 6,” an emergency pump), recruiting and morale numbers, and local portraits, while the Miscellaneous pieces turn to social critique (“Scunner’t”), a toast to an absent friend, and a closing, unfinished portrait of the miner’s steadfastness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cDumfries: Courier and Herald Press, 1921
653			_aScottish poetry
653			_aEnglish poetry -- Scottish authors
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76732
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