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The works in verse and prose complete of Henry Vaughan, Silurist
The works in verse and prose complete of Henry Vaughan Silurist Author:Henry Vaughan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: am aware, quoted. It occurs among the tributary Verses prefixed to one of the (now) extremely rare books of Dr. Thomus Powell of Oantreff. viz. " Quadriga Saluti... more »s " (1657), and has for signature not Henry Vaughan, Siluris, as usual, but O1. Vaughan, 2'. e. the Usean Swan, in allusion to his ' Olor Iseanus' and that again to the old legend of the Swan's singing before death,—a legend-name Applied in our own day to Rossini, as " the swan of Pesaro". I give these lines rrrbatim et literatim as copied from the "Quadriga", as follows: Y Pader, Pan trier, Duw-tri a'i dodedd O'i dadol ddaioni, Yn faen-gwaddau i boh gweddi, Ac athrawiaeth a wnaeth i ni. Ol. Vaughan.' which I thus versify : The Lord's Prayer when into it we look Pereeived is a gift of God tri-une : A gift from Ills paternal goodness shook, Base of all doctrine and pray'r importune. 1 From " Quadriga Salvtia or the Four General Heads of Christian Religion surveyed and explained.... 1657". See additional Notes and Illustrations, at end of Vol. IV. as before on Vaughan's Welsh. To one of Thomas Vavohan's minor pieees—at elose of the present volume—is prefixed a sentenee from " Anthroposo]ihia Mugieu " semi- apologetie beeause of Welsh being native, and English foreign to him. It wasn't praetieally so with Henry. Altogether our " sweet Singer's ' birth-plaee and early training, aetualized to himself Claudian's " Old Man of Verona " as sympathetieally translated in " Thalia Rediviva " thus: " Most happy man ! who in his own sweet fields Spent all his time ; to whom one eottage yields In age and youth a lodging : who grown old Wnlks with his staff on the same soil ami mould Where he did ereep an infant, and ean tell Many fair years spent in one quiet eell "' (b) Friendships And Associates. ...« less