'Tis thine, with plastic hand, to mould the mass, Of ductile silver, and resplendant brass; 'Tis thine, with sooty finger to produce Unnumber'd forms, for ornament and use.
Hark! what a sound!--art's pond'rous fabric reels, Beneath machinery's ten thousand wheels; Loud falls the stamp, the whirling lathes resound, And engines heave, while hammers clatter round: What labour forges, patient art refines, Till bright as dazz'ling day metallic beauty shines.
Thy swords, elastic, arm our hero's hands; Thy musquets thunder in remotest lands; Thy sparkling buttons distant courts emblaze; Thy polish'd steel emits the diamond's rays; Paper, beneath thy magic hand assumes A mirror brightness, and with beauty blooms. With each Etruscan grace thy vases shine, And proud Japan's fam'd varnish yields to thine.
Thine, too, the trinkets, that the fair adorn, But who can count the spangles of the morn? What pencil can pourtray this splendid mart. This vast, stupendous wilderness of art? Where fancy sports, in all her rainbow hues, And beauty's radiant forms perplex the muse. The boundless theme transcends poetic lays,-- Let plain historic truth record thy praise.
Miles Folio Alcester .. 21 186 Atherstone .. 20 178 Banbury .. 42 134 Barr-beacon .. 7 188 Barr-park .. 5 122 Bath .. 87 176 Bilstone .. 11 101 Blenheim .. 52 133 Bristol .. 84 176 Bromsgrove .. 13 176 Buxton .. 61 163 Cheltenham .. 51 176 Chester .. 75 101 Coalbrook Dale .. 30 101 Coleshill .. 10 180 Coventry .. 18 161 Derby .. 40 163 Dublin .. 218 101 Dudley, thro' Oldbury .. 9 130 Dudley, thro' Tipton .. 10 125 Dunchurch .. 29 161 Edgbaston .. 1 190 Edinburgh .. 298 113&163 Evesham .. 31 186 Glocester .. 52 176 Hagley .. 12 169 Halesowen .. 7 169 Handsworth .. 2-1/2 106 Harborne .. 3 182 Henley-in-Arden .. 14 133 Hockley House .. 10 133 Holyhead .. 158 101 Kidderminster .. 18 169 King's Norton .. 6 186 Knowle .. 10 134 Leamington .. 22 133&134 Leeds .. 109 113&163 Leicester .. 43 180 Lichfield .. 16 163 Liverpool .. 104 113&163 London, thro' Coventry .. 109 161 ----, Henley-on-Thames .. 118 133 ----, Uxbridge .. 114 133 ----, Warwick & Banbury .. 119 134 Malvern .. 32 176 Manchester .. 82 113&163 Matlock .. 55 163 Meriden .. 12 161 Northampton .. 42 161 Northfield .. 6 176 Nottingham .. 50 163 Oxford .. 61 133 Rowley .. 7 193 Rugby .. 31 161 Sedgley .. 14 110 Sheffield .. 76 163 Shenstone .. 13 163 Shrewsbury .. 45 101 Smethwick .. 2 130 Solihull .. 7 135 Stafford, thro' Walsall .. 26 113 ----, Wolverhamp. .. 30 101 Stourbridge .. 12 130&169 Stratford-upon-Avon .. 22 133 Sutton Coldfield .. 8 163 Tamworth .. 16 163 Tipton .. 8 125 Walsall .. 9 113 Warwick, by Knowle .. 20 134 ----, by Hockley House .. 20 133 Wednesbury .. 8 110 West-Bromwich .. 6 108 Wolverhampton .. 14 101 Worcester .. 26 176 Yardley .. 3 192 York .. 132 113&163