ODE IX. THE TRIUMPH OF OWEN: A FRAGMENT. From Mr. Evan's Specimen of the Welf Poetry, ADVERTISEMENT. OWEN fucceeded his father Griffin in the Principality of North Wales, A. D. 1120: this battle was near forty years afterwards. OWEN's praife demands my fong, Owen swift and Owen strong, Big with hofts of mighty name, 3 * North Wales. + Denmark. Dauntless on his native fands Check'd by the torrent-tide of blood, Despair and honourable Death. 20 25 39 35 40 The red Dragon is the device of Cadwalladar, which all his defcendants bore on their banners. ODE X. THE DEATH OF HOEL. om the Welf of Aneurim, Ayled The Monarch of the Bards. flourified about the Time of Talieffin, A. D. 570. With headlong rage, and wild affright, ufh and fweep them from the world! ns of regal honour deck, d with mirth and hope they burn, 5 20 24 ODE XI. (FOR MUSIC.) Performed in the Senate-boufe, Cambridge, July 1, 1769, at the Inftallation of his Grace Aguftus-Henry-Fitzroy Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University. 46 I. HENCE, avaunt! ('tis holy ground,) "And Ignorance with looks profound, "Servitude that hugs her chain, "Nor in these confecrated bow'rs, "Let painted Flatt'ry hide her ferpent-train in "Nor Envy base, nor creeping Gain, "Dare the Mufe's walk to stain, "While bright-ey'd Science watches round: "Hence, away! 'tis holy ground." II. From yonder realms of empyrian day Burfts on my ear th' indignant lay; There fit the fainted fage, the bard divine, The few whom Genius gave to fhine [flow'rs; 10 Thro' ev'ry unborn age and undifcover'd clime. Rapt in celeftial transport they, Yet hither oft' a glance from high They fend of tender fympathy To bless the place where on their opʼning foul 'Twas Milton ftruck the deep-ton'd shell, And, as the choral warblings round him fwell, 15 20 ek Newton's felf bends from his ftate fublime, 25 d nods his hoary head, and liftens to the rhyme. III. le brown o'er-arching groves! That Contemplation loves, Where willowy Camus lingers with delight, trod your level lawn, 30 Oft' woo'd the gleam of Cynthia filver-bright 1 cloifters dim, far from the haunts of Folly, Vith Freedom by my fide and foft-ey'd Melancholy." IV. hark! the portals found, and pacing forth, h folemn fteps and flow, h potentates, and dames of royal birth, mitred fathers, in long order go: at Edward, with the Lilies on his brow n haughty Gallia torn, fad Chatillon, † on her bridal morn, .* 35 40 t wept her bleeding love, and princely Clare, Edward III. who added the Fleur de lys of France e arms of England. He founded Trinity-col Mary de Valentia, Countefs of Pembroke, daughf Guy de Chatillon, Comte de St. Paul in France, hom tradition fays, that her husband, AudeHe de Valentia, Earl of Pembroke, was flain at arnament on the day of his nuptials. She was foundrefs of Pembroke-college or Hall, under ame of Aula Mariæ de Valentia. Elizabeth de Burg, Countess of Clare, was wife -hn de Burg, fon and heir of the Earl of Ulfter, |