THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN, A FRAGMEN T. FROM Mr. EVANS's Specimens of the Welch Poetry; LONDON, 1764, Quarto. OWEN fucceeded his Father GRIFFIN in the PRINCIPALITY of North-Wales, A. D. 1120. This battle was fought near forty Years afterwards. THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN,, A FRAGMENT. WEN's praise demands my fong, OWEN fwift, and OwEN ftrong; Faireft flower of Roderick's ftem, He nor heaps his brooded ftores, Nor on all profusely pours; Lord of every regal art, Liberal hand, and open heart. Big *North-Wales. Big with hofts of mighty name, Squadrons three against him came; This the force of Eirin hiding, Side by fide as proudly riding, On her shadow, long and gay, Lochlin plows the wat'ry way; There the Norman fails afar, Catch the winds, and join the war: Burthens of the angry deep. Dauntless on his native fands The Dragon-Son of Mona ftands; In glitt'ring arms and glory dreft, High he rears his ruby creft. There the thund'ring strokes begin, There the prefs, and there the din ; * Denmark. Talymalfra's The red Dragon is the device of Cadwallader, which all his defcendants bore on their banners. Talymnalfra's rocky shore Echoing to the battle's roar. Where his glowing eye-balls turn, Where he points his purple fpear, Agony, that pants for breath, Defpair and honourable Death. * CARMEN F 5 |