Severn

England's on the anvilöhear the hammers ringö Clanging from the Severn to theTyne!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

—Tennyson