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A Memorial Sketch of the Visit of the Marquess of Salisbury to Newport, Mon
A Memorial Sketch of the Visit of the Marquess of Salisbury to Newport Mon Author:Charles Wilkins General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: Daniel Owen and Company Subjects: Newport (Newport, Wales) Newport (Wales) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this bo... more »ok you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: No woodland oaroller art thou ; Far from the archer's eye, Thy course is o'er the mountain's brow, Thy music in the sky : - Then fearless float thy path of cloud along, Thou earthly denizen of angel song. Around the hall of Gwern y Cleppa Davjdd ap Gwilym threw the witchery of his song, and imagination restores to us the old mansion in its festive era, when the harpers made nights and days melodious, and no one went away from the gate without having proof of the hospitable and generous character of Ivor. It is from the monk and the bard, who were the historians of their time, that we glean the faint records of the past. Just as Lewis Glyn Cothi incidentally, in his eulogies of chieftains, tells of social life, amusements, dress,« less