***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 paffes by. "Dear loft companions of my tuneful art, "Dear, as the light that vifits these fad eyes, "Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, "Ye died amidst your dying country's cries→ "No * The fhores of Caernarvonshire oppofite to the ifle of Anglesey. + Cambden and others obferve, that eagles used annually to build their aerie among the rock's of Snowdon, which from thence (as some think) were named 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 ifland, as the Scots, and the people of Cumberland, Weftmore. land, &c. can teftify: it even has built its neft in the Peak of Derbyshire. [See Willoughby's Ornithol. published by Ray.] As dear to me as are the ruddy drops, Shakef. Jul. Cæfar. "No more I weep. They do not sleep. "On yonder cliffs, a grifly band, "I fee them fit, they linger yet, 66 Avengers of their native land: * "With me in dreadful harmony they join, "And * weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line." II. 1. "Weave the warp, and weave the woof, "The winding-sheet of Edward's race. "Mark the year, and mark the night, The * See the Norwegian Ode, that follows. + Edward the Second, cruelly butchered in Berkley-Caftle. "The fhrieks of death, thro' Berkley's roofs that ring, "Shrieks of an agonizing King! She-Wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, "That tear'ft the bowels of thy mangled Mate, "From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs "The fcourge of Heav'n. What Terrors round him wait! "Amazement in his van, with Flight combin'd. "And forrow's faded form, and folitude behind. II. 2. Mighty Victor, mighty Lord, "Low on his funeral couch he lies! "No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obfequies. " Is * Ifabel of France, Edward the Second's adulterous Queen. + Triumphs of Edward the Third in France. Death of that King, abandoned by his Children, and even robbed in his last moments by his Courtiers and his Mistress. "Is the fable* Warrior fled? "Thy fon is gone. He refts among the Dead. "The Swarm, that in thy noon-tide beam were born? "Gone to falute the rifing Morn. “Fair † laughs the Morn, and foft the Zephyr blows, "While proudly riding o'er the azure realm "In gallant trim the gilded Vessel goes; "Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; "Regardless of the fweeping Whirlwind's fway, "That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening-prey. II. *Edward, the Black Prince, dead fome time before his Father. + Magnificence of Richard the Second's reign. See Froiffard and other contemporary Writers. II. 3. *Fill high the sparkling bowl, "The rich repaft prepare, "Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast; "Close by the regal Chair "Fell Thirft and Famine fcowl "A baleful fmile upon their baffled Guest, "Heard ye the din of + battle bray, "Lance to lance, and horfe to horse ? "Long years of havock urge their deftin'd course, And thro' the kindred fquadrons mow their way. "Ye * Richard the Second, (as we are told by Archbishop Scroop and the confederate Lords in their manifefto, by Thomas of Walfingham, and all the older Writers) was ftarved to death. The ftory of his affaffination by Sir Piers of Exon, is of much later date. + Ruinous wars of York and Lancaster. |