My lofty head shall swell to strike the skies.[3]

And tears of hopeless love bedew the maiden’s eyes.

Descend, O Muse, from thy divine abode,

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)

Can furnish to Subscribers hour by hour

No less than sixteen thousand candle power,[4]