Page:A poetic survey round Birmingham - James Bisset - 1800.pdf/13

Rh The, near , you'll view, There Springfield's seen—the lies perdue. Near yonder terrace walk, so clean and neat, There and  oft prepare a treat Of healthy bev'rage; Porter, stout and strong, To renovate old age, or cheer the young.

Beneath your eye—north-west, you'll view 's, And where, in yonder vale, the water falls, Where locks impede the current's rapid force, A grand there takes its devious course; In mazy windings round the town it bends Its circling course; at south-south-east it ends, Tho' various branches from its trunk extends.

Now further glance your eye beyond the town, Where purple Heaths appear, or dusky brown, Close by yon 's pellucid stream behold A, which seems some cent'ries old, there display'd her taste, And rear'd the fabrick on the barren waste;