155 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



r The tower that long hath flood 



The crufli of thunder and the warring winds, 

 Shook by the flow, but fure deftroyer Time ? 

 Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its bafe ; 

 And flinty pyramids, and walls of brafs 

 Defcend ; the Babylonian fpires are funk, 

 Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down,. 



This huge rotundity we tread grows old ; 

 And all thofe worlds that roll about the Sun, 

 The Sun himfelf fhall die ; and antient Night 

 Again involve the defolate abyfs, 



It appears probable, that the town of 

 Caernarvon fprung from the antient Segon- 

 tium, a Roman city, about half a mile dif- 

 tant, and is not, as generally fuppofed, 

 indebted to Edward I. for its name, for 

 Caer-yn-Arfon might, with equal propriety, 

 have been applied to the old city, as to this 

 more modern fortrefs. The town, how- 

 ever, was no doubt the creation of Edward, 

 and it was moft probably formed, in a great 

 meafure, from the ruins of the old fort. 



After 



