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Address to the Irwell—Confluence of the Irk & Irwell—Lords de la Warr.
Arise, and quick to Irwell's banks repair,
With fairy barge, and floating streamers fair;
Blow the loud conch, collect thy sprites around,
Till rocky Hulme re-echoes wide the sound;
Thence gently floating with the favouring gale,
Ply the long oar, and swell the purple sail;
And where old Irwell meets fair Mersey's tide,
Exert thy powers, and o'er thy waves preside.
Where ripling Irk joins Irwell's silent flood,
Old de la Warr's manorial castle stood.[1]
With fairy barge, and floating streamers fair;
Blow the loud conch, collect thy sprites around,
Till rocky Hulme re-echoes wide the sound;
Thence gently floating with the favouring gale,
Ply the long oar, and swell the purple sail;
And where old Irwell meets fair Mersey's tide,
Exert thy powers, and o'er thy waves preside.
Where ripling Irk joins Irwell's silent flood,
Old de la Warr's manorial castle stood.[1]
- ↑ The Lords de la Warr were formerly Lords of the manor, and their house stood upon the ground now occupied by the College. The College
bed for the space of two, three, or four days, to contemplate upon the undertakings he was employed for. In making his calculations he only used the pen to note the result of his mental operations; from this point he again took up the calculation, and arriving at a new result, noted it, and thus continued step by step advancing to his conclusion: hence his memory must necessarily have been exceedingly retentive, and his reasoning faculties and judgment clear. He is spoken of as a man liberal and communicative; of a most astonishing capacity; of a great genius, though unimproved by science or letters; of an intense application, and strict integrity.—See Aikin's History.
