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TLYSAU PENNILLION, or POETICAL BLOSSOMS, and PASTORALS.

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TLYSAU PENNILLION, or POETICAL BLOSSOMS, and PASTORALS..

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The Cuckoo's Song to Meirionydd.
What e'er I've seen beneath the fky,
To chear the heart, and charm the eye,
The fprightly board, the fparkling glass,
While swift and fweet, the minutes pass;
All these, befide her rivers clear,
Of dear Meirionydd's plains appear.

To break the fods, and draw the chain,
The sturdy Ox will ftoutly ftrain ;
O'er furrows ftiff, and fallow dales,
His nervous vigor never fails:

Far ftronger chains to draw the heart,
Meirionydd's matchlefs Maids impart.

Tho, dark and dreary, bleak and bare,
Meirionydd's rugged rocks appear;
Tho' on her mountains nature frowns,
Contentment ev'ry valley crowns.
Who could expect the Cuckoo's fong,
The mouldring mountain-heath among ?

How finely form'd in shape, and face,
The ruddy Nymphs of rural race!
Where can fuch-in duftry be feen,
As on the crowded village green?
Ah! who alone all hearts can gain?
Meirionydd's blooming village train.
Fair in the Dee's delightful ftreams,
The filver-fhining Salmon seems;
Fair, the Thrush's mottled breast,
Brooding o'er her moffy neft,

But fairer, lovelier, to my mind,

Are dear Meirionydd's Damfels kind.

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Wild in the woodlands, blithe and free,

Dear to the bird is liberty;

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Mor anwyl yw Meirionydd!
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Lle byddo eulu dedwydd;
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Morwynion glan Meirionydd.

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Dear to the Babe, to be careff'd,

And fondled on his Nurfe's breast;
But in my heart I hold more dear,
Meirionydd's dusky deferts drear.

How sweet the Harp's harmonious found,
When the alternate Rhymes go round:
What for the Mifer's hoard care we,

The happy fons of Harmony?
But fofter, sweeter, every strain,
Sung by Meirionydd's tuneful Train.
On fea, or fhore, where e'r I range,
Tho' oft the busy scene I change,
No reft I find; but anxious roam,
To spend my happiest hours at home,
Meirionydd, matchlefs Land, divine,
My very heart, and foul are thine.

*This Song was originally the compofition of the late Mr. Lewis Morris I have now the pleasure to prefent my readers with a new English verfion of this elegant native Ballad, which contains all the alliterative beauty, characteristic of Welth Poetry; which was verfified, at my particular request, by my late friend, the Rev. Richard Williams of Vron, in Flintshire. 13 Gwn

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