To the waves round Mona gleaming,

Where the Roman track’d the deep!

Be the mountain watch-fires heighten’d,

Pile them to the stormy sky!

Till each torrent-wave is brighten’d,

Kindling as it rushes by.

Now each rock, the mist’s high dwelling,

Towers in reddening light sublime;

Heap the flames! around them telling

Tales of Cambria’s elder time.