PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Vol. 108.June 15, 1895.
edited by Sir Francis Burnand
ROUNDABOUT READINGS.
There is, of course, to be an Eisteddfod in 1896; and it appears that the Llandudno Executive Committee have been making some revolutionary proposals with reference to it. They have resolved that they "respectfully desire that the Gorsedd will see its way to concur in the subject for the chair being in any metre, and not restricted to an awdl. The Committee are aware that the awdl has antiquity and custom in its favour, but, while calculated to develop skill in metrical composition, the local Committee feel that the necessity of composing in the form of an awdl is fettering to the conception and imagination." I cannot say what an awdl is, but I am dead against fetters, and, therefore, I say, down with the dastardly, fettering awdl.
Swift, strike off the fetters, wherever they're found,
Let the song-loving Welshman go free and unbound.