To build that tower at Tewkesbury bird-haunted:

Or ever rose that town of olden fame—

Ciceter, out of Roman arms and flame:

Before the older Bristol was begot

Of Keltic fathers: Caer Glow was a name.

Old Gloucester reigns the king of all the lot!

Caer Glow, “the splendid city,” so they called it,

Those funny beggars brilliant in woad;

And then the tramping Romans came and walled it

And called it Glevum, throwing many a road