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The train whistle over Castle Shannon becomes a time-bridge, keeping the page's `nineteen century` miners alive as sound moves across Tressle and graveyard.

It is a strong example of how this collection handles history: not as distant fact, but as something briefly reactivated by place and noise. The verified transcription keeps the source's plain phrasing, including `Tressle`, `nineteen century`, and `miner's alive`, rather than smoothing them into standard usage.

A compact elegy: 'The train whistle / Over the Castle Shannon / Tressle,' passing 'through the several / perfect graveyards,' is what 'Keeps the nineteen century / miner's alive.' The whistle's sound becomes a form of continued breath over the dead, so industrial Pennsylvania's vanished labor is sustained not by memory but by the ongoing noise of the railroad itself - resurrection by acoustic accident.