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^icceffion of another royal houfe, in which 

 the rival rofes were entwined ; the brilliant 

 reign of it's virgin queen, who was to 

 carry the profperity and the renown of a 

 great nation to it's utmoft line ; the day 

 of poefy, funk in eclipfe from the period of 

 the maffacre, riling again with redoubled 

 fplendor in that epoch ; the exultation of 

 the Cambrian Bard who thus forefees the 

 reftored glory of his art in the genius of 

 'him who fung the fairy region, and by that 

 of the mighty mafter of the fock and buf- 

 kin ; the continuance of that glory through 

 future times by the Song of Eden, and the 

 ilra'ms of fucceffive warblers ; the exulta- 

 tion doling by the plunge of the injured 

 Bard amid Conway's deep and tumultuous 

 flood ! Can pedeftrian fpeed, and the dexte- 

 rity of the whip and rein, by any effort of 



talent, be raifed to the intrinfic grandeur 



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of themes like thefe ? Ah ! when will 



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