Rhymes of Northern Bards / Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham

by Unknown

Ye who so lofty sing,

Nor longer only Venus praise,

But here your numbers bring.

No more shall blinded mortals pray,

Or bow before her shrine;

No more in Cyprus seek the bay,

But find it here on Tyne.

III.

First of yon throng, see Delia[18] shine,

That matchless nonpareil!