While Cambria shrinks, with boding fear, And bleeding, crown'd with honour's wreath, With every pang my breast is torne; the great hall, the hospitality of which, Gwilim Ddu so feelingly sings, and which was twenty-four yards long, are still ascertainable. One of the many favors bestowed upon Sir Gryffydd, by the King, was Dinorwig, and the continuation of this, and his other property, in his descendants, shows that Edward, in this instance, did not extend the rapacity of tyranny to its siezure, on the revolt of the proprietor. This division continued in that great and leading branch of his family, residing at Penrhyn and Cochwillan, till William Williams, Esq. transfered it to his third son, Thomas Williams, of Vaenol, ancestor to Sir William Williams, Bart. who, dying without issue, left his estates to King William, who granted them to Mr. Smith, Speaker of the House of Commons, in whose decendant Thomas Ashton Smith, Esq. of Vaenol, they now are. I sink to earth, to hear his name, How Griffith fought, how Griffith fell; Misfortunes throng on every side, No trait of mercy, marks our foes; * North Wales, the Venedotia of the Romans. † A river in Carnarvonshire, now unknown, having probably changed its name, And Britain's sons, in vain, are brave, Affliction wild, with piercing cry, At once-existence and its woes ! THE CONTRAST, SONNET, Written on seeing a tall and corpulent Lady in a Phaton and four, passing a short thin Woman, with a Pitcher of Water on her Head, a Basket of Potatoes in one Hand, a Child in the other, and fol lowed by Three more. SONNET. How widely different is life's varied way, Is, by incessant burthens, press'd to earth. Wealth gayly rolls, on gaudy rapid wheels, The Proud thus passing, with averted eyes, And, patient toiler, loaded and depress'd, |