THE

TRIUMPHS

OF OWE N*,

A FRAGMENT.

FROM

Mr. EVANS's Specimens of the Welsh Poetry LONDON, 1764, Quarto.

WEN'S praise demands my fong.
Owen fwift and Owen ftrong;

Faireft flower of Roderic's ftem,

+ Gwyneth's fhield, and Britain's gem.
He nor heaps his brooded stores,
Nor all profufely pours;

Liberal hand, and open heart.

Big with hosts of mighty name,
Squadrons three against him came;
This the force of Eirin hiding,
Side by fide as proudly riding,
On her fhadow long and gay

Lochlin plows the watery way:

*Owen fucceeded his father Griffin in the principality of NorthWales, A. D. 1125. This battle was fought near forty years afterwards.

+ North-Wales.

Denmark.

There

There the Norman fails afar

Catch the winds, and join the war;

Black and huge along they sweep,
Burthens of the angry deep.

Dauntless on his native fands
The Dragon-fon of Mona ftands;
In glittering arms and glory dreft,
High he rears his ruby crest.
There the thundering ftrokes begin,
There the prefs, and there the din;
Talymalfra's rocky shore
Echoing to the battle's roar
Where his glowing eye-balls turn,
Thousand banners round him burn.
Where he points his purple spear,
Hafty, hafty rout is there,
Marking with indignant eye
Fear to ftop, and to shame fly.
There Confufion, Terror's child,
Conflict fierce, and Ruin wild,
Agony, that pants for breath,
Defpair and honourable Death.

*The red dragon is the device of Cadwallader, which all his defcendants bore on their banners.

EPITAPH,

AT BECKENHAM, ON MRS. CLARKE*.

L

O! where this filent marble weeps,

A Friend, a Wife, a Mother, fleeps;
A heart, within whofe facred cell
The peaceful Virtues lov'd to dwell:
Affection warm, and Faith fincere,
And foft Humanity, were there.
In agony, in death, refign'd,
She felt the wound the left behind.
Her infant image, here below,
Sits fmiling on a father's woe;
Whom what awaits, while yet he ftrays
Along this lonely vale of days?
A pang, to fecret forrow dear;
A figh, an unavailing tear;

Till Time fhall every grief remove,

With Life, with Memory, and with Love.

Wife to a phyfician at Epfom; fhe died April 27, 1757.

STANZAS,

SUGGESTED BY A VIEW OF THE SEAT AND RUINS
AT KINGSGATE, IN KENT, 1766.

LD, and abandon'd by each venal friend,
Here Hd took the pious refolution
To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend
A broken character and conftitution.

On this congenial fpot he fix'd his choice;

Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighbouring sand;
Here fea-gulls fcream, and cormorants rejoice,
And mariners, though fhipwreck'd, fear to land.

Here reign the bluftering North and blighting East,
No tree is heard to whisper, bird to fing;
Yet Nature could not furnish out the Feast,
Art he invokes new terrors ftill to bring.

Now mouldering fanes and battlements arise,
Turrets and arches nodding to their fall,
Unpeopled monafteries delude our eyes,
And mimic defolation covers all.

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"Ah!

"had B-te been true;

"Ah!" faid the fighing peer,

Nor G- -'s, nor B-d's promises been vain,
Far other scenes than this had grac'd our view,
And realis'd the horrors which we feign.

"Purg'd by the fword, and purify'd by fire,
Then had we seen proud London's hated walls;
Owls should have hooted in St. Peter's choir,
And foxes ftunk and litter'd in St. Paul's."

O DE

FOR

MUSIC K.

Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1. 1769, at the Inftallation of his Grace Auguftus-Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the Uni verfity.

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TENCE, avaunt ('tis holy ground), 66 Comus, and his midnight-crew, "And Ignorance with looks profound, "And dreaming Sloth of pallid hue, "Mad Sedition's cry profane,

"Servitude that hugs her chain,

Nor in these confecrated bowers

"Let painted Flattery hide her ferpent-train in flowers.

Nor