Persisting, desperate, at last the thing

Wrought in him blusterous as a backward spring.

Now Llew the youth was named. And Gwydion

Made his complaint to Math, the mighty son

Of Mathonwy.

Said Math: "Despair not. We

With charms, illusions, and white sorcery

Will seek to make—for mine are wondrous powers—

A woman for him out of forest flowers."

And so they toiled together one wan night,