THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN. A FRAGMENT. FROM Mr. EVANS's Specimen of the Welsh Poetry; LONDON, 1764, Quarto. ADVERTISEMENT. OWEN fucceeded his father GRIFFIN in the principality of NORTH WALES, A. D. 1120. This battle was fought near forty years afterwards. THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN. A FRAGMENT. WEN's praise demands my fong, OWEN fwift, and OWEN ftrong; Faireft flower of Roderic's ftem, * Gwyneth's fhield, and Britain's gem. He nor heaps his brooded stores, Nor on all profufely pours; Lord of every regal art, Liberal hand, and open heart. Big with hosts of mighty name, Squadrons three against him came; This the force of Eirin hiding; Side by fide as proudly riding, On her fhadow long and gay Lochlin plows the wat❜ry way; There the Norman fails afar Catch the winds, and join the war : Burthens of the angry deep. Dauntless on his native fands The dragon-fonof Mona ftands; *Denmark. The red Dragon is the device of Cadwallador, which all his defcendants bore on their banners. In In glittering arms and glory dreft, There the thund'ring strokes begin, There the prefs, and there the din; Echoing to the battle's roar. Where his glowing eye-balls turn, Where he points his purple fpear, Marking with indignant eye Fear to ftop, and fhame to fly. There Confufion, Terror's child; Conflict fierce, and Ruin wild; Agony, that pants for breath; Defpair, and honourable Death, *** EPI K 2 |