To Osney, on the Seven Bridges Road;

For under Osney’s solitary shade

The bulk of the Electric Light is made.

Here are the works, from hence the current flows

Which (so the Company’s prospectus goes)

Power of Works there

Can furnish to Subscribers hour by hour

No less than sixteen thousand candle power,[13]

All at a thousand volts. (It is essential

To keep the current at this high potential