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The product of that city, now Far distant lands consume; The Indian wears around his brow The white webs of her loom. Her vessels sweep from East to West; Her merchants are like kings; While wonders in her walls attest The power that commerce brings.

From wealth hath sprung up nobler fruit, Taste linked with arts divine; The Gallery and the Institute Enlighten and refine. And many an happy English home With love and peace repays The care that may be yet to come, The toil of early days.

Had I to guide a stranger's eye Around our glorious land, Where yonder wondrous factories lie I'd bid that stranger stand. Let the wide city spread displayed Beneath the morning sun, And in it see for England's trade What yonder town hath done.

"In a speech last year, at the British Association, Mr. Brand well advised the members to take the manufacturing districts of England on their way to the north, and to explore the wonders there accumulated. Manchester is the great miracle of modern progress. Science, devoted to utility and industry, have achieved the most wonderful results. Intellectual advancement denoted in a taste for literature and the fine arts,—employment for the highest as well as the lowest;—public buildings, liberal institutions, and all that can mark wealth, and a knowledge of its best purposes;—all this is the growth of a single century."