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Stout i Glo'fter ftood aghaft in fpeechlefs trance:

To arms! cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quiv'ring [lance.

all the highlands of Caernarvonshire and Merionethshire, as far east as the river Conway. R. Hygden speaking of the castle of Conway built by King Edward the firft, fays, "Ad ortum amnis Conway ad clivum "montis Erery; and Matthew of Westminster, (ad ann. 1283,) "Apud Aberconway ad pedes montis Snowdoniæ fecit erigi caftrum "forte."

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i Gilbert de Clare, furnamed the Red, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, fon-in-law to King Edward.

* Edmond de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore.

They both were Lords-Marchers, whofe lands lay on the borders of Wales, and probably accompanied the King in this expedition.

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On a rock, whose haughty brow

Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood,

Robed in the fable garb of woe,

With haggard eyes the Poet ftood;

('Loofe his beard, and hoary hair

m Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air)

And with a Master's hand, and Prophet's fire,

Struck the deep forrows of his lyre.

1 The image was taken from a well-known picture of Raphaël, reprefenting the Supreme Being in the vifion of Ezekiel: there are two of these paintings (both believed original), one at Florence, the other at Paris.

Shone, like a meteor, ftreaming to the wind.

Milton's Paradife Loft.

• Hark,

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Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert cave,

Sighs to the torrent's aweful voice beneath!

O'er thee, oh King! their hundred arms they wave,

Revenge on thee in hoarfer murmurs breath;

• Vocal no more, fince Cambria's fatal day,

To high-born Hoel's harp, or soft Llewellyn's lay.“

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Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-top'd head.

• On

n On dreary Arvon's fhore they lie,

• Smear'd with gore, and ghaftly pale :

Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens fail;

The famifh'd Eagle fcreams, and passes by.

The shores of Caernarvonshire oppofite to the isle of Anglesey.

o Cambden and others obferve, that eagles ufed annually to build their aerie among the rocks of Snowdon, which from thence (as fome think) were named by the Welch Craigian-eryri, or the crags of the eagles. At this day (I am told) the highest point of Snowdon is called the eagle's neft. That bird is certainly no ftranger to this island, as the Scots, and the people of Cumberland, Weftmoreland, &c. can testify: it even has built its neft in the Peak of Derbyshire. [See Willoughby's Ornithol. published by Ray.]

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Dear loft companions of my tuneful art,

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Dear, as the light that vifits thefe fad eyes,

Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart,

'Ye died amidft your dying country's cries→

'No more I weep. They do not fleep.

On yonder cliffs, a griefly band,

I fee them fit, they linger yet,

Avengers of their native land:

'With me in dreadful harmony they join,

' And ' weave with bloody hands the tiffue of thy line.'

PAs dear to me as are the ruddy drops,

That vifit my fad heart

4 See the Norwegian Ode, that follows.

Shakefp. Jul. Cæfar,

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