Madoc by Robert Southey

Author:Robert Southey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BiblioBazaar

a governor was slain, burnt was a fort on the flood mark of the

sea; a magnanimous prisoner they fetched away, Mairyc son of Grufydd, the theme of prophetic song: Were they not all bathed in sweat when they returned, for full of sunshine were the extended hill and dale?

Pour thou out the Horn to the mutually toiling ones,

the whelps of Owen with connected spears in united leapt

they would pour abroad in a noted spot

a store, where the glittering irons go rebounding";

Madoc and Meilyr, men nurtured in depredation,

for iniquity the stemming opponents,

the instructors for tumult of a shield-bearing host,

and froward conductors of subjects trained for conflicts.

It is heard how from the feast of mead went the Chief of

Catraeth; upright their purpose with keen-edged weapons; the train of Mynyddoc, for their being consigned to sleep obtained their recording, leaders of a wretched fray! None atchieved what my warriors did in the hard toil of

Maelor,— the release of a prisoner belongs to the harmonious eulogy*

Pour out thou Cup-bearer sweet mead distilled

of spear-impelling spirit in the sweating toil,

from bugle horns proudly overlaid with gold

to requite the pledge of their lives.

Of the various distresses that chieftains endure

no one knows but God and he who speaks.

A man who will not pay, will not pledge, will abide no law,

Daniel the auxiliary chief, so fair of loyalty.

Cup-bearer, great the deed that claims to be honoured,

of men refraining not from death if they find not hospitality.

Cup-bearer, a choicest treat of meadmust be served us together,

an ardent fire bright, a light of ardently bright tapers.

Cup-bearer, thou mightest have seen a house of wrath in

Lledwn land, a sullenly subjected prey that shall be highly praised. Cup-bearer, I cannot be continued here; nor avoid a separa'

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