The Monument,[1] near Lady-wood,[2] you'll view,
There Springfield's[3] seen—the Cottage[4] lies perdue.
Near yonder terrace walk, so clean and neat,
There Giles and Forrest 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 St. Paul's,[5]
And where, in yonder vale, the water falls,
Where locks impede the current's rapid force,
A grand Canal[6] 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[7] appear, or dusky brown,
Close by yon Lake's[8] pellucid stream behold
A Gothic Pile,[9] which seems some cent'ries old,
Vulcanic fancy there display'd her taste,
And rear'd the fabrick on the barren waste;
- ↑ Belonging to Parrot Noel, Esq.
- ↑ Seat of Colonel Rann.
- ↑ Seat of Thomas Barker, Esq.
- ↑ Cottage of Content.
- ↑ St. Paul's Chapel is a very neat stone building; there is an Altar Piece of St. Paul's Conversion , in stained glaſs, executed by the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Eginton, of Handsworth—(plate N.)—whose elegant works are so much admired at Oxford, Windsor, Fonthill, and various other parts of Great Britain and Ireland.
- ↑ Birmingham Grand Canal.
- ↑ Birmingham Heath.
- ↑ Hockley Pool, a beautiful lake of water, plate A.
- ↑ Hockley Abbey, the seat of Mr.Richard Ford, do.
