Cassandra sings for the sun that she can’t see,
from the cage where she swings in the mine’s seam.
In the dark and the damp of the hell down below
she is the hope of the men who risk life for coal.
Black soot and sweat coat their bodies and lungs.
The only comfort they have is the sound of her song.
As long as she sings in her cage as it swings,
the miners can dream of leaving Hades.
But is her song one of hope or is it a cry?
knowing that her fate was always to die?
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