The railway station with admiration, I next must mention in terms of praise.
Where engines howling and trains a-rowling, strike each beholder in a wild amaze.
Then there's Main Street, that broad and clean street, with rows of gaslights that shine afar.
I could spake a lecture on the architecture of the gorgeous city of Mullingar.
The comic ballad about Mullingar did not neglect the importance of the railway in its development. Some weeks ago Mullingar had a celebratory weekend in honour of 150 years of railway history.
A special steam train travelled from Dublin to commemorate the event and there was a pageant at the station for its arrival.
The event was organised with Iarnrod Eireann by a local committee set up to promote railway history, the Midlands Arts and Railway Society.
The society, along with other interests in the midlands, is pushing to have the rail link between Mullingar and Athlone reopened for the development of the area and for tourism. One of the proposals put forward by Westmeath Community Development Ltd was for the restoration of a steam train service between the two towns.
Apart from being a tourist amenity, the development company believes the service would generate commercial traffic between two of the fastest-growing towns in the region.
The line between Mullingar and Athlone was closed in 1985. But while both the Chambers of Commerce in Mullingar and Athlone would like the link restored, there is little official support for such a move.
Neither is the Athlone-based Minister for Public Enterprise, Ms O'Rourke, very enthusiastic about reopening the line, which is still serviceable.
She recently told reporters she would examine the possibility of reopening it, but added that the move would have to be subject to stringent conditions.
"All the Irish taxpayers give £107 million a year to Iarnrod Eireann to run a very good railway line to all parts of the country. "However, we would not be opening a line which would not be viable. To reopen it, it would have to be a viable line, well used and showing that it could operate in a financially viable way," she said.
The Ancient City of Mullingar is sung by Tony Holleran on the album, I'll Never Go to Your Wedding Again.