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.

O

WEN's praise demands my fong,

OWEN fwift, and OWEN ftrong;

Fairest 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.

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Big

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:
Black and huge along they fweep,
Burthens of the angry deep.

Dauntless on his native fands

The dragon-fon of Mona ftands;
In glittering arms and glory dreft,
High he rears his ruby creft.

There the thund'ring ftrokes begin,

There the prefs, and there the din;

Talymalfra's rocky fhore

Echoing to the battle's roar.

Where

Where his glowing eye-balls turn,
Thoufand banners round him burn:

Where he points his purple fpear,

Hafty, hafty Rout is there;
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.

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ODE