“Now, now, the fair one’s mine;
I am more bless’d then laird or king,
With Anna of the Tyne!”
THE TYNE.
By Henry Robson.—1807.
Henry Robson, the author of this, as also of the Collier’s Pay Week, see page 38, was born at Benwell, near Newcastle; and is now residing at the latter place, where, besides the above, he has written several pieces of poetry, possessing a considerable degree of merit.
In Britain’s blest island there runs a fine river,
Far fam’d for the ore it conveys from the mine:
Northumbria’s pride, and that district doth sever