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Newcastle - Northumbrian City

NEWCASTLE    -   NORTHUMBRIAN   CITY

 
Half-English, half-Scot:  martial roots in the past,
Newcastle   -  once dark from its coaly drama -
A breathless place ever ready for change.
 
                                 Shudder at the Keep and Black Gate’s  near defeat
                                 By  the march of  Victorian railway builders ;
                                 In narrow streets now widened,
                                 Shiver with  winds from sea  or moors.
 
Tyne, father of this town 
Famed for  guns and ships,
Is  o’erleaped  by a platoon of steel bridges   
Grabbing the south bank,  binding the city to England.

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