Roman Leicester, 1971 (revisited 2008)

A word of explanation. In the 70s my second cousin (Dick from Durham) lived in Leicester. He wrote a series of poems entitled "A Leicester Calendar". This is one such.

The stars shine down on the broken columns of Rome,
On the fragment of wall, and the tussocky grass;
Long, long ago, the last legion went home:
Civilisations pass.

With the bricks of the Roman city, long and thin,
Men built the broad nave of St. Nicholas;

Near the site of Carey's cottage, we built the Holiday Inn:

Lord have mercy on us.