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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.
Copyright ©
Sidney Beck
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