LEEDS LEADS!
Or, Welcome News from the North.
["The tenor of market reports concerning all the main industries out of which the citizens of Leeds make their living ... suggests the advent of a turn for the better, commercially, that may almost claim to rank as an industrial revolt."—The Yorkshire Post.]
Hooray! Food for hope the Tyke Town surely yields.
The "Sun of York" shines on the Cardigan Fields
(Which now should be called the Elysian).
The Capitalist and the Builder unite
To throw light upon Leeds. Let's sing, "Leeds! kindly light!"
(Which we hope will not shock the precisian.)
Oh! Bradford and Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Batley!—
(These Yorkshire names fall into rhythm most patly)—
Your returns and reports Trade is heeding,
In hope that the storm, like the North, we may weather,
With Walker and Sons (there is nothing like leather!),
Those great "Men of (Leeds) Light and Leading!"
Appropriate.—Fixed service for "Tied Houses" should be the bounden duty of Tide-waiters.
