220 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [ Vou. Lo: 
as it does the most important portion of Cornish literature that is extant,. 
was published along with an English translation on the opposite page, 
by Edward Norris in 1859. The Beginning of the World, the Passion of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ : 
Such are the names of the poems that constitute the Cornish Drama, 
The general division of it is into stanzas of six verses. Seven syllables. 
commonly form one verse. There is an agreement in sound between the 
last syllable of the first and second verses, of the fourth and fifth verses» 
of the third and sixth verses, e. ¢., 
Mester genough yn gylwyr 
Hagh arluth heuna yv guyr 
Ytho mar kruge golhy, 
Agos treys h’ aga seghe 
Golheus pup treys y gyle 
Ahanough Kepar ha my. 
In the introduction to his edition of Kelly’s Manx Grammar, the late 
Mr. Gill inserted a Manx poem on which he bestowed great praise. The 
poem is written in Iambics and deserves the praise which the famous. 
Manx scholar bestowed upon it. 
As Cre ta gloyr, ach aaliad ennym vie, 
Ennym! ta myr y ghall ta sheidey shaghey, 
Shoh moylleyn pobble, my she moylley shen. 
The famous Manx Song, Na Kirree fo Sniaghtey, or “The sheep under 
the snow,” is written in Anapaests, e. g. 
Lurg geurey dy niaghtey as arragh dy roi. 
Va ny shenn chirree marroo’s n’ eagin veggey bio, 
Oh! irree shiu guillyn as gowshin dyn clieu 
Ta ny Kirree fo-sniaghtey shen va nyn draid reeve. 
Vannin veg veen has all the raciness of Celtic verse. 
O vannin veg veen 
Tayns mean y cheayn 
Aynjee ta lane eeasteyryn, 
Tra ta ’n oarn cuirt, 
As ny praasyn soit, 
Goll roue dy cherragh ny baatyn. 
The translation of Paradise Lost into Manx by Christian is in Iambics, 
é.g., Pargis Caillit. 
CE CS ye YO ee 
