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wave of varying hue will be fpraying it- 
felf around the fhore, the fiery points will 
be accumulating wrath, when the violence 
of the heat of pervading fire fhall be burit- 
ing out.’ 
The above paffage is a fpecimen of the 
wonderful powers of the Welth language, 
but which is loft in the multitude of words 
required in the literal tranflation of it. 
The prefix Dy in the verbs, denoting iter- 
ation, gives a vehemency to the whole. 
Dygymmriw is peculiarly beautiful: its 
origin is briwo, to break into {mall par- 
ticles; thence cymmriwo, to break to- 
gether, to become fprayed; and dygym- 
mriwo, to be in a continued ftate of {pray- 
ing together.- I deem this line altogether 
matchlefs; particularly the ton amliw, or 
wave of varying hue,’ 
The crofs metricity : an heroic metre. 
The following extract is rather long, 
butit is given to fhew the nature of a word 
of recurrence, which is a peculiar beauty 
in’ Welfh verfe. 
Endeweifi waneg o Wynnovi—dir 
I am dervyn mawr meibion Beli : 
Ocz hydraiz wycyr llyr yn Nenwi 5 
Oez hydr am dylan gwynvan genti. 
Hyll nid oezeidezv, hwyrzezv holi ; 
Hallt oez eidagrau digrawn heli. 
Ar helw bun arav, uc banieri—ton, 
Tynhegl a gerzeifi gorzwvr Deivi ; 
Ceintum gerz i Néft cyn noi threngi; 
Cant cant ei moliant mal Elivri. 
Canav, can vezwl avrzwl, erzi 
Caniad ei marwnad, mawr drueni! 1220. 
«T liftened to a wave from Gwynnovi 
land round the ample borders of the fons 
of Beli: It impetuoufly pervaded, filling 
over the ftrand; aloud about the fhore it 
uttered woes. It was of no forbidding 
nature, tracing its long accuftomed courfe;- 
falt were its tears from the exhauflefs 
brine. Devoted to a gentle maid, above. 
the fprayings of the wave, flowly have I 
walked on Teivi’s bordering ftream; I 
fang the fong of Neft before her diffolu- 
tion; a hundred have fung her praife like 
Elivri. Iwill fing, with mind oppreffed 
by grief, for her fake, a fong of mourn- 
ing, mifery extreme !’ 
The fair metricity. 
Y vunagerais, dan vaen y gorwez, 
Peraiz €i monwes, pur oez ei mwynez. 
< 1660. 
“A Sketch of the Laws of Welfh Verfification. 
, Sevwe allan vorwynion a fyllwe werydre— 
207 
¢ The fair whom I loved, beneath a ftone 
fle lies, fweetnefs filled her breaft, pure 
was her friendfhip.” 
This metre forms a beautiful paafe of 
recurrence, when ufed with the preceding 
one, as 
Tree yw ev, Tad név, Nav gleinion—radau,) 
Nor creaduriau gorau gwron, 1320. 
¢ More powerful is he, the Father of 
heaven, Lord of glorious attributes, than 
the creatures of excelling virtue. i 
The trailing metricity. 
Cafant bawb eu teithi, llawen vi Brython, 
Ceintor cornelwe cathl hezweahinon, 560. 
¢ When ail obtain their rights, the Bry- 
thon fhail rejoice, the horn of triumph 
founding the fong of peace and of ferenity.” 
The long metricity. 
Ein prynaift — 
Trwy dy hoeliaw, draeda dwylaw,drud adeil- 
jad ! 
A gwaew dan vron a gwaed gwirion, gwerig 
bryniad ! 1330. 
© Us thou didft redeem — 
through thy being nailed, feet and hands, 
rath conftru€tion! and a fpear under the 
breaft with innocent blood, the redemp- 
tionofhumanity.2. 
All verfes exceeding the lengths of the 
foregoing canons were confidered to be 
effentially.a combination of fome fhorter 
ones. Such longer verfes fometimes oc- 
cur, asthe following, the former part 
of which is a fine fpecimen of the hexa- 
meter : 
nee 
Cynzylan 
Llys Pengwern neud tanze ! 
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* Stand out virgins and behold the fertile 
land of Cynzylan: the royal houfe of 
Pengwern is it not involved in fire!” 
This article is extended to a length, 
_which renders it neceffary for me to con- 
clude. Iam, &c. 
MEIRION. 
P. §. I do not with your correfpondent 
A.Y. to confider what I faid refpe&ting the 
guttural founds *heing not ufed by the Goths, 
to bé my decifive opinion yet ; but that the 
general conftru€tion of their language feems 
to have had that effet, whereverit acquired 
afcendency in mixing with others. He will 
think it curious that Woden is a mythologi- 
cal perfonage among the Welfh. They ge- 
nerally call the galaxy Carr Gwopion, or 
the rampart of Goodion; and this name under 
/ Many 
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