Rhymes of Northern Bards / Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham

A SONG,

Composed by MR JAMES WILSON, of Cawsey Park, on Mr Coughron[57] and Family, leaving Hebron Hill.

(Dated 4th May, 1784.)

To fertile soil, and fragrant air,

Be it, great God, thy will

To guard, with thy parental care,

My friends of Hebron Hill.

In some luxuriant calm retreat,

Where nature may instil

Her choicest charms—there make a seat

For those of Hebron Hill.

Bestow, by thy all-bounteous hand,

The richest turf to till;

And crops increase at thy command,

To those of Hebron Hill.

May providence protect them, there,

And virtue’s vest their will:

And copious comforts ever share,

With those of Hebron Hill.

With friendly neighbours let them live,

Renown’d for wit and skill;

And grace, and glory, amply give,

Those now on Hebron Hill.

My heart expands by lib’ral love,

’Twill with fruition fill,

If pristine powers propitious prove,

To all at Hebron Hill.

[57] Brother of George Coughron, the celebrated mathematician, who died at Newcastle, 7th January, 1774, Aged 21.

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