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LAKES OF MERIONETHSHIRE. 

 TAL Y LLYN. 



'* There is a sweet accordant harmony 



In this fair scene. 



These sloping banks, with tree, and shrub, and flower 

 Bedeck'd ; and these pure waters, where the sky 

 In its deep blueness shines so peacefully ; 

 Shines all unbroken, save with sudden light, 

 When some fair swan majestically bright, 

 Flashes her snow-white beauty on the eye ; 

 Shines all unbroken ; save by dewy shade, 

 When from the delicate birch a dewy tear 

 The west wind brushes. Even the bees' blithe trade, 

 The lark's clear carols, sound too loudly here : 

 A spot it is for far off music made, 

 Stillness and rest." 



This place derives its name from the situation of 

 its church, at the head of a beautiful lake, em- 

 bosomed in green hills, called Llyn Mwyngil, some- 

 what more than a mile in length, and about half a mile 

 in breadth. The scenery is strikingly romantic: there 

 is another pool within the limits of the parish, 

 called Llyncae, at the foot of Cader Idris ; it is 

 about a quarter of a mile long, and nearly of equal 

 breadth, and connected by a small stream with Llyn 

 Mwyngil. The vale in which it is situated is so 

 contracted, as to leave, for a considerable part of 

 its length, only a very narrow road on each side of 

 the lake, from_the clear surface of which are re- 

 flected its precipitous declivities. Towards the 

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