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ON THE MYTHOLOGY of the ANCIENT BRITISH BARDS, In the Manner of TALIESIN, Recited on P R I M R O S E H I L L AT A MEETING of BRITISH BARDS, On the Summer Solstice of 1792, and ratified* at the subsequent Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice. _______ Hir y bydd Brython, fal Carcharorion, Ym mraint Alltudion Tir SAXONIA, Eu Ner a folant Eu Hiaith a gadwant Eu Tir a gollant ond Gwyllt WALIA. TALIESIN, anno 550. _______ Long shall the Britons humbled low remain, For ages drag the Saxons' galling chain; But faithful still their Ancient God adore, Pure keep their language as in days of tore; Be robb'd of native lands, from all exil'd, But Walia's rough uncultivated wild. ________ Gwir, yn erbyn y Byd. I.e.—Truth against all the World. ________ *A poem, &c. admitted at one meeting, approved of by a second, and ratified by a third, may allowably be published. Ancient usage. |