Deep in the mine

Deep in the mine's dense gloom profound,

Far from the sun's bright ray

And every cheerful sight and sound,

I toil alone all day.

Under the safety lamps' pale gleam

A vision comes to cheer:

I see as in a waking dream

My wife and children dear!

Deep, deep in the gloomy mine

I have no thought of fear,

For well I know that love divine

To me is always near!

Though soldiers may to battle go

By hopes of glory led,

The miner fights no earthly foe

To win his children bread.

Firedamp is the cry that brings

Terror to the miner brave,

As through the dark it rings,

And turns it to a grave.

Deep, deep in the gloomy mine

I have no thought of fear,

For well I know that love divine

To me is always near!