nstrelsy his joy exprest.
The Shepherd thus refresh'd with heavenly grace,
Return'd with joy eternal in his face;
The Saviour's wond'rous love to man he prais'd,
And thus his voice with gratitude he rais'd:--

"All glory to the gracious SON of GOD,
Who hast alone the grevious wine-press trod,
To satisfy his justice, and for me
Hast wrought endless salvation on the tree;
Who hast redeem'd us, and destroyed our foes,
That neither death nor grave can work our woes:
Hast overthrown the dragon, and no more
Hell, nor its gates have terrors left in store!"

Thus did the Shepherd testify his joy,
A theme that might an angel's tongue employ;
He praised Christ, who for mankind did die;
His praise let all resound, to all eternity.

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VERSES

_On seeing the Ruins of Ivor Hael's Palace_.

Amidst its alders IVOR'S palace lies,
In heaps of ruins to my wondering eyes;
Where greatness dwelt in pomp, now thistles reign,
And prickly thorns assert their wide domain.

No longer Bards inspired, thy tables grace.
Nor hospitable deeds adorn the place;
No more the generous owner gives his gold
To modest merit, as to Bards of old.

In plaintive verse his IVOR--GWILYM moans,
His Patron lost the pensive Poet groans;
What mighty loss, that IVOR'S lofty hall,
Should now with schreeching owls rehearse its fall!

Attend, ye great, and hear the solemn sound,
How short your greatness this proclaims around,
Strange that such pride should fill the human breast,
Yon mouldering walls the vanity attest.

A Letter from Mr. Thomas Carte to the Rev. Evan Evans.

DEAR SIR,

I cannot sufficiently acknowledge Sir Thomas Mostyn's kindness, in the
trouble he has taken, of sending up the catalogue of his historical MSS.
and in his obliging offer of communicating them to me. Those which I am
desirous to see more than the rest, are these, viz.--

"The Annals of the Abbey of Chester, to A.D. 1297.

"Beda de Gestis Anglorum, if it be a different work from his Chronicon
and Ecclesiastical History. It is the same.

"History of England, from William the Conqueror to the 6th of Edward the
6th.

"Annales Cambriae ignoti autoris, et Chronica Cambriae; both which seem
to be in the same volume, which begins with a Welsh history of the Kings
of the Britons and Saxons, and Princes of Wales, to the tim