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| | The Blantyre Explosion |
 | | The explosion, one of the biggest disasters in the history of the mines, occurred at High Blantyre on October 22, 1877. |
 | | For all that, no comment is offered beyond a general curse on the cruel mine; an air of fatalism hangs over this kind of song, the hero is a fine boy but a mere toy of destiny, like the heroes of the folk ballads of earlier times. |
 | | The whole panorama is clearer, we know the name of the colliery, the number of miners who died alongside the hero is specified, the community is presented, even if only obliquely, in the mouth of the solitary riverside mourner [...]. |
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