190 tORWEN TO BALA. 



called Pabell Llywarch Hen, The Tent of old Lty- 

 ivarch, where it is probable he had a houfe, and 

 fpent the latter part of his days. He had been one 

 of king Arthur's generals, and a member of his 

 council. In his aftivity in oppofmg the encroach- 

 ments of the Saxons and Irilh, he was deprived of 

 his whole patrimonial pofTelTions, and loft every one 

 of his four-and-tv\^enty fens. Having now no friends, 

 he retired to a hut at Aber Cuog (now Dolguog, 

 near Machynlleth,) to foothe with his harp the re- 

 membrance of misfortune, and to vent in elegiac 

 numbers the forrows of old age in diflrefs. One of 

 his poems, particularly, defcribes his misfortunes, and 

 his deplorable fituation, in the moil fimple and af- 

 fefting language. It opens with the reprefentation 

 of an aged prince, who once ruled in magnificence, 

 now robbed of his poiTell'ions, and wandering in a 

 ftrange country, opprefTed with v/retchednefs and 

 poverty. Overcome with fatigue and hunger, he is 

 fuppofed to reft his wearied hmbs on the top of an 

 eminence, and to contemplate there the varied and 

 unhappy events of his life. This elegy has appeared 

 in an Englifh drefs : what follows is a feledion from 

 it, as the whole would be too long for infertion 

 here: 



Hark! the cuckoo's plaintive note 

 Doth thro' the wild vale fadly float j 

 As, from the rav'noiis hawk's pnrfuit, 

 In Ciog refts her weary foot ; 

 And there, with mournful founds and low. 

 Echoes my harp's refponfive woe. 



Return- 



