Sketches And Legends Amid the Mountains of North Wales in Verse
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XVIII. Or as a doom had fallen on all around, Smiting the Cwm-glas with its iron wrath, And sweeping vegetation from the ground, Till broken barriers mark alone the path. Thus looks this valley, as if chill'd by Death! Vast and inanimate, a dreary pile, The very moss seems half-afraid to wreathe The fallen fragments with its sombre smile! XIX. Yet here has life a humble life been spent, Years since, when yet more sad this wondrous glen, Ere smoothing time had civilising lent Its aid, and hither... drawn the steps of men ! There is a huge and shapeless mass of stone, (14) Hurl'd from the cliff by some convulsion past ; Grim, dark, and mighty, it reclines alone, Amid the deep morass where it was cast ! 74 SKETCHES AND LEGENDS AMID XX. Within there is a hollow, small and low, Where solitary 'mid those mountains grey, To the old cromlech did a female go, To end her mournful hours, perchance to pray. How dreary must have been the livelong night, With the wild storm borne on the sultry air, And the wind rustling past with savage might, As if to mock her in her rocky lair !
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