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The huge sea-lanterns dimly showed on Wren’s cathedral height,
But Science rather made a mull with her electric light,
The Templars, for their brother Prince, lit up their dingy fane,
And you could see their Lamb and Flag made out uncommon plain.
Rich was the glare that Mappin’s house (the cab pervader) sent,
Fierce glowed the Store that sells the beer from Burton-upon-Trent.
And many a hundred grease-pots did their best for Barry’s pile,
But that is an Immensity—what say you, Tom Carlyle?
Shirley Brooks. 1863.