{"id":1061,"date":"2007-09-13T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newton-le-willows.com\/wp\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2013-12-22T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T17:15:47","slug":"rokeden-poem-by-j-h-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"Rokeden – Poem by J H Lane<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is not in dear Newton a picture so pretty
\nAs the green rocky dean at the north of the town;
\nOh, the sight of this valley inspires a sweet ditty,
\nOf sprightliest measure, its beauties to crown.
\n

\"\"<\/center>
\nFrom the old Castle Hill to the Lady Hill stretching,
\nWhat a sylvan display greets the visitors eye!
\nA succession of scenes worth an artistic sketching
\nIn bright colours to equal the bow in the sky.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>First the bridge oer the lake claims the life-limning brushes,
\nWith its background of trees on the Golborne domain;
\nNext the head of the lake with its reeds and its rushes,
\nAnd the bank of tall beeches oershading the lane.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>Then the B Y H house, at the top of the Hollows,
\nAnd the green sloping meadow with kine dotted oer,
\nWhere sweep the swift wings of the fly-hunting swallows,
\nAnd where grow the trim ash and the broad sycamore.<\/p>\n

Then the well with its volume of sweet water flowing,
\nAnd the bridge in the Hollows a picture demand,
\nAnd the tall chestnut-tree at the wood-corner growing,
\nAnd the verdure-clad banks of bright-red rocky sand.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>Then the ancient free school, by John Stirrup erected,
\nWith its sculptured quotation from wise Solomon,
\nAnd the words oer the entrance, so often inspected,
\nWhich record the kind action of worthy old John.<\/p>\n

Then the path by the moor oer the little bridge leading,
\nThrough the bloom-scented dell with its summer-decked trees,
\nAnd its clear, purling brook by the Wishing Well speeding,
\nIts melodious birds and its murmuring bees.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>Then the dam claims the art of the painter or poet,
\nWith its bank of pink blossoms on carpets of blue,
\nAnd the white floating lilies reflected below it,
\nAnd the tall shady trees with the sun glinting through.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>Last the old Lady Hill, where methinks the Archdruid
\nCut the mistletoe bough with his sickle of gold,
\nAnd outpoured his libations of rich crimson fluid
\nTo the sun and the moon and his gods manifold.
\nJ. H. Lane.<\/p>\n
\n

This version transcribed \u00a92005 by Steven Dowd for use in the Newton le Willows website from the 1916 Vol II, History of Newton in Makerfield by J H Lane.<\/i><\/p>\n

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There is not in dear Newton a picture so pretty As the green rocky dean at the north of the town; Oh, the sight of this valley inspires a sweet ditty, Of sprightliest measure, its beauties to crown. From the old Castle Hill to the Lady Hill stretching, What a sylvan display greets the visitors eye! A succession of scenes worth an artistic sketching In bright colours to equal the bow in the sky. First the bridge oer the lake claims the life-limning brushes, With its background of trees on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,9],"tags":[33,88],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-hstory","category-newton-history","tag-newton-le-willows","tag-newton-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}