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Bell, fish, and ring, and a bird to sing,
full sweet on the top of an oaken tree;
All those you'll find most neatly join'd
well beautified on every side,
With motto round 'Let Glasgow town,
'still flourish on the Banks of Clyde.'

This charming town, with water clear
as crystal all along the streets,
Is well supply'd with fine machines,
which draw't from below your feet.
Likewise fine gardens all around,
with pleasant walks on every side,
Mine bleach-fields, which pleasure yields,
to Glasgow on the Banks of Clyde.

Here's pleasure too, a river thro'
this city runs, although but small,
Where orderly twelve bridges high,
and those in half a mile stand all:
All those, each one with curious stone,
are built with arches high and wide;
Six miles also this stream does go
for Glasgow on the banks of Clyde.

Likewise by right for more delight,
they have a large and spacious green,
Adorn'd with planting all around,
divided by a pleasant stream:
Into the green there's to be seen,
building fair both large and wide,
For washing clear through all the year,
for Glasgow on the Banks of Clyde.