Thy swords, elastic, arm our hero's hands; Thy musquets thunder in remotest lands; Thy sparkling buttons distant courts emblaze; Thy polish'd steel emits the diamond's rays; Paper, beneath thy magic hand assumes A mirror brightness, and with beauty blooms. With each Etruscan grace thy vases shine, And proud Japan's fam'd varnish yields to thine. Thine, too, the trinkets, that the fair adorn, But who can count the spangles of the morn? What pencil can pourtray this splendid mart. This vast, stupendous wilderness of art? Where fancy sports, in all her rainbow hues, And beauty's radiant forms perplex the muse. The boundless theme transcends poetic lays,-- Let plain historic truth record thy praise. _The Roads pointed out_ TO PLACES DISTANT FROM BIRMINGHAM. Miles Folio Alcester .. 21 186 Atherstone .. 20 178 Banbury .. 42 134 Barr-beacon .. 7 188 Barr-park .. 5 122 Bath .. 87 176 Bilstone .. 11 101 Blenheim .. 52 133 Bristol .. 84 176 Bromsgrove .. 13 176 Buxton .. 61 163 Cheltenham .. 51 176 Chester .. 75 101 Coalbrook Dale .. 30 101 Coleshill .. 10 180 Coventry .. 18 161 Derby .. 40 163 Dublin .. 218 101 Dudley, thro' Oldbury .. 9 130 Dudley, thro' Tipton .. 10 125 Dunchurch .. 29 161 Edgbaston .. 1 190 Edinburgh .. 298 113&163 Evesham .. 31 186 Glocester .. 52 176 Hagley .. 12 169 Halesowen .. 7 169 Handsworth .. 2-1/2 106 Harborne .. 3 182 Henley-in-Arden .. 14 133 Hockley House .. 10 133 Holyhead .. 158 101 Kidderminster .. 18 169 King's Norton .. 6 186 Knowle .. 10 134 Leamington .. 22 133&134 Leeds .. 109 113&163 Leicester .. 43 180 Lichfield .. 16 163 Liverpool .. 104 113&163 London, thro' Coventry .. 109 161 ----, Henley-on-Thames ..