...Improvement f—to have changed My native Clyde, my once romantic shore, Where Nature's face is banish'd and estranged, And Heaven reflected in thy wave no more...before, Lie sere and leafless now in summer's beam, 1 Dr. Mathie Hamilton, writing in the Glasgow Herald in 1849, reprinted, Glasgow Past and Present,...

...banish'd and estranged, And Heaven reflected in tliy wave no more ; Whose banks, thatsweeten'd31ay-days breath before, Lie sere and leafless now in summer's...beam With sooty exhalations cover'd o'er. And for the daised green sward, down thy stream Unsightly hrcklan.fi smoke, and clanking engines gleam, Speak not...