And sedgy* tufts will rustle-play,
When Zephyrs tell the tidings gay,
That Death has laid our Evan low,

And thatch'd in earth their direst foe.

And late though Nature claim'd her debt,
We all regard it with regret;

And it ought not to be forgot, that Burton, the English historian, in his remarks upon Wales, gravely discovers the Etymon of Metheglin, in the name of Mathew Glin, a Welshman,, first inventor.

The places peculiarly propitious to these valuable insects are still known to us in their names, GWENYNOG, the Beestons of Wales; the most prominent of these now is, that near Denbigh, which has been long the property and residence of a family descended from Ririd Vlaidd, of Rhiwaedog, Lord of Penllyn, whose allusive coat-Argent, on a bend vert, three wolves heads erased of the field-they paternally bear: this branch as well as that of Chirk Castle (now extinct in the male line) assumed this name upon the marriage of an ancestor with the heiress of the Middleton's, a Shropshire family. This race and name has since been highly honoured by the public spirit of Sir Hugh Middleton, who, in 1608, brought the new river to London, a blessing, when the national health is considered, of incalculable value.

*Hazle rods and sedges-materials in thatching with straw. + Evan died at a very advanced age.

Shall long recount his various care,
And name him with a grateful prayer;

Yet know that to the sons of worth,

Life's close is but a second birth,

For those blest realms that roof the earth.

SONNET

ΤΟ

CONTENT.

Fair of the ruddy cheek, and russet vest,
With eye that beams the sunshine of thy breast,
That tripping light yon heathy cliffs among,
Pour'st to the source of good, thine artless song,

Yet, thou canst quit awhile the leafy glen,
Thy thoughts of solitude's still charms divest,
To wander, playful, thro' the haunts of men,
And revel in the busy, blameless, breast!

Where'er thou art, associate of the good,
Unheard, where vacant Mirth is laughing loud;

Or calm, amidst a city's noisy crowd,

Or list'ning to the warblers of the wood:

Spread o'er the guiltless check thy brightest glow, Nor ask a boon that Reason can't bestow.

To ***** ******* ***** Esq.

To him under whose friendly protection the evening sun of a temporary parent decends with serenity; her merits in the Muse's measured voice cannot but be acceptable.

Where rolls Cegidog,t highly born,

With hasty steps to meet

* Guy tells us,

that Paramana, more endearing and expressive than the ancient word, signifies, among the Modern Grecians, Nurse, or Second Mother.-Travels in Greece, Tom 1.

A mountain stream, which, passing Cymmau, and uniting

The Alyn, Terrig, sister waves,
It washes Cymmau's feet.*

Astonish'd by a world of charms,
By every rural grace;

The Naiads twist and curl its course,

The stubborn oak, the forest's pride,
In love with scenes like this,
Leans from the rocky cliff, and bends,
The playful stream to kiss.

The alders wave, the willows twine,

The ash ambitious towers,

with the Alyn (lesser river) and the Terrig (rippler) fall into the Dee, near Eaton, in Cheshire.-Thus Drayton :

Then Alen makes approach (to Dee most inly deere)
Taking Cegidog in; who, earnest to be there,

For haste, twice under earth her crystall head doth runne.

Pronounced Cumma, the plural of Cwm, a Dingle, the name

of a house and township in the parish and manor of Hope (or Estyn, in Flintshire.