268 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens fail, 

 The famifli'd eagle fcreams and pafles by. 



The Bards after this " Cambria's fa- 

 tal day/' were reduced to employ their 

 facred art in obfcurity and forrow, but 

 while thus cramped in their poetical de- 

 partment, they had more leifure for 

 the ftudy of heraldry, and their other 

 domeftic duties. 



3y the infurrei5lion, however under 

 Owen Glyndwr, in the reign of Henry 

 IV. the martial fpirit of the Britifh 

 mufe was once more revived, to cele- 

 brate the enterprizes of their heroic 

 leader. Like him the bards of his time 

 were " irregular and wild ;" and as the 

 taper glimmering in it's focket, gives a 

 fudden blaze before it is extinguifhed, fo 

 did they make one bright effort of their 

 original and daring genius, which was 

 foon afterwards buried, with their hero 

 in the grave. 



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