Upon our children’s breath;

Our voice in theirs through time shall swell—

The bard hath gifts of prophecy from death.

He dies; but yet the mountains stand,

Yet sweeps the torrent’s tide;

And this is yet Aneurin’s[189] land—

Winds! bear the spoiler one more tone of pride!

[188] At the time of the supposed massacre of the Welsh bards by Edward the First.

[189] Aneurin, one of the noblest of the Welsh bards.

THE FAIR ISLE.[190]