On God, thy cares and troubles lay--
For thee, he always is in pain;
If Christ thou truly dost obey,
A sure reward thou shalt obtain.
Footnotes:
{59} The Goryn Ddu (black crown), is surmounted by a circular ancient
British station, in a very perfect state, about a mile from Trwst
Llywelyn, on the other side of the river, up the vale: like the ancient
Mathraval, it is situated in a wood.
{61} Trwst Llywelyn is only four or five miles from the nearest point of
Shropshire; and the inhabitants, except the very old people, do not
understand the Welsh language.
{62} Anglesey.
{65} King of the Fairies.
{75a} The battle of Maelor, fought with the English in the 12th century,
by Owen Cyveiliog, prince of Powys, who composed the admired poem called
Hirlas, or the Drinking Horn, on the victory he obtained.
{75b} The battle of the Britons and Saxons at Bangor Is Coed, in the 7th
century.
{75c} "Before the prince himself there was vast confusion, havoc,
conflict, horrible consternation, and upon Tal Moelvre, a thousand
banners."--Panegyric on Owain Gwynedd. Evans's Specimens of the
Welsh Bards, p.
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