By Mrs. G. LINNÆUS BANKS, Author of “God’s Providence House,” “The Manchester Man,” “More than Coronets,” etc.
CHAPTER II.
“But, Muse, return at last; attend the princely Trent,
Who, straining on in state, the north’s imperious flood,
The third of England called, with many a dainty wood
Being crowned, to Burton comes, to Needwood, where she shows
Herself in all her pomp, and as from thence she flows
She takes into her train rich Dove and Darwin[4] clear—
Darwin, whose font and fall are both in Derbyshire,
And of whose thirty floods that wait the Trent upon,