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Rh Or rosy children, sportive, trip along, To see rare Fire-works—or to hear a Song: For oft, in Summer, Music's secret pow'rs, Woos thousands to, to pas their hours.

Next view—the Chapel's plainly seen, The for the troops, lie just between. 's you'll see about due east, extends beyond, two miles at least.

Where curling eddies of black smoke ascends, wond'rous force and pow'r portends, A Author:James Watt (1736-1819) and Portal:Matthew Boulton's Fame they sure must raise, Far, far beyond, my Muse's feeble praise; Tho' on a theme so grand she'd wish to shew, Respect to and to  due.

These Locks, and Boats, and Bridges, now you 'll view, Point out a fresh, and Junction new; Thence boats to and to  go, And thence—where silver and  flow.

Now, more beneath your eye, see, to the right, 's beauteous spire attracts your sight.