Mow Cop: The False Tower

I could see from my bedroom window
a stone tower, stark,
on a rocky outcrop.
It was all of two hundred years old
built to give
the family in the big house
a romantic vista.

(Their money came from coal mines
but they liked to pretend
they were mediaeval)

Today the best view is from
the council estate
as is only right and proper:

"These are the children of the men
that hewed the coal
that raised the cash
that built the tower on Mow Cop".

The family is long gone
of the big house, nothing is left.
Only the folly remains.