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LLANVIHANGEL FOR PAETEICIO AND GAER CAMP. 



Mat 19th, 1885. 



"O'th gav, yr HSv, i'th awr harz, 

 A'th geindwr, a'th egindarz ; 

 Dy hinon yn dirion dvvg 

 Aur-genad i Vorganwg. 

 Tesog vore, gwna'r lle'n Hon ; 

 Ag anerg y tai gwynion 

 Rho dwr, rho gynnhwv gwanwyn : 

 A 9ynmiil dy wall i dwyn ; 

 Tywyna'n valg ar gal9 gaer 

 Yn luglawn, yn oleuglaer." 



So sings the bard, David ab Gwilym, the Welsh Ovid, who flourished about the 

 middle of the fourteenth century under the peculiar patronage of Ivor the 

 Generous, an ancestor of the Tredegar Family. He continues, moreover, his 

 " Invocation for the Snmmer to greet Morgan wy," in a happy succession of 

 eloquent verses, which those only can appreciate who understand fully the beauty 

 and harmony of the Welsh language. It is to be feared that the members of the 

 Woolhope Club generally have not this hapi^iness. In mercy to them is given 

 this bald translation of the lines quoted : — 



If I obtain thee, O Summer, in thy splendid 

 Hour, with thy fair growth, and thy shooting 

 Gems ; thy serenity pleasantly bear, thou 

 Golden messenger, to Morganoc. With 

 Sunshine morn gladden thou the place ; 

 And greet the whitened houses ; give growth. 

 Give the first fruits of the spring, and collect 

 Thy blossoms to the bush ; shine proudly 

 On the wall of time, full of life and gaily bright. 



For more than five hundred years the cottages of Monmouthshire, and the 

 same may be said of Glamorganshire, have been whitewashed. The white walls 

 point out the situation of the cottages in the beautiful valleys visited by the 

 Woolhope Club to-day as clearly and brightly as they are described by the poet 

 in the middle of the fourteenth century. 



The first field meeting of the year took place at Llanvihangel Station, and 

 Mr. Lane, the Secretary, took the following list of the gentlemen who attended 

 it :— Mr. C. G. Martin, the president of the Woolhope Club ; Mr. H. C. Moore, 

 vice-president ; Mr. Henry Wilson, president of the Malvern Field Club ; Sir 

 George H. Cornewall, Bart. ; Sir Herbert Croft, Bart. ; the Hon. and Rev. 

 Berkeley L. Scudamore Stanhope; the Hon. and Rev. Wm. Scudamore Stanhope ; 

 Drs. Bull, Chapman, and J. H. Wood ; General Gillespie ; Major Doughty ; 

 Captain Campbell ; the Revs. T. Beavan, W. Bowell, G. H. Clay, C. L. Eagles, 

 E. A. Ely, H. B. D. Marshall, S. Stooke-Vaughan, J. Tedman, and H. W. Tweed; 

 Mr. F. R. Kempson, F.R.I.B.A. ; Messr.s. .T. A. Bradney, Arthur Bowell, 



