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

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Now smiles in the spring’s bloomy pride;

And the sweet-scented primroses grow,

Near the streamlet’s sweet-gurgling tide.

To the banks of the Tyne we’ll away,

And view th’ enrapturing scene;

While Flora, the goddess of May,

With her flow’rets bespangles the green.

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THE BANKS OF THE TYNE.

BY JAMES WILSON.