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The BEAUTIES OF GLASGOW CITY.

When I was young, and youth did Bloom,
where fancy snar'd me I did rove;
From top to town, the nation round,
thro' many a silent shady grove:
At last I came to Scotland by name,
which was adorn'd on every Side,
With cities rare, but Glasgow fair,
is the beauty of all on the banks of Clyde.

At first when I this city drew nigh,
it was into the month of May,
When all about this beautiful town,
the fields were clad with flowr's so gay,
The music-bells through woods and fells,
do echo out on very side,
Such melody can no where be,
like this on the banks of the river Clyde.

As I drew near, the girls did appear,
such beauties as I ne'er had seen,
The virgins fair, with modest air,
pass up and down so neat and clean
The people here so kind they were,
made me resolve here to abide,
For ever here I wish to live,
in Glasgow on the Banks of Clyde.

But when I came into the Cross,
such buildings I to you declare,
For beauty never yet was seen,
in number all at once was there;