Emilia Aylmer Blake

“ Like a comrade fallen, the firemen brave
Her snow-wreathed coffin bear,
And twenty maidens surround her grave,
In raiment white and fair.
I can well believe by the power of God
A heavenly angel sprung
From that broken lily beneath the sod,
"When earth to earth we flung. ”

“ Quick, quick, to the rescue, firemen brave
With shouts and galloping feet !
" They come, they come, but too late to save,"
The cry rose up from the street.
Each man his coat, each woman her shawl,
They stripped themselves, and bound
In a mass together to break the fall
From topmost floor to ground. ”