a;
E wywa ei we' aua,'
A'i weuai yw ieuau ia.'

A proest, or kind of counterchange, was eventually added to it by one
Gronwy Owen, so that the Welsh now can say, what perhaps no other nation
can, that they have a poem of eight lines in their language, in which
there is not a single consonant. It is however necessary to state, that
in the Welsh language there are seven vowels, both w and y being
considered and sounded as such. The two parts may be thus rendered into
English:

'From out its womb it weaves with care
Its web beneath the roof;
Its wintry web it spreadeth there--
Wires of ice its woof.

And doth it weave against the wall
Thin ropes of ice on high?
And must its little liver all
The wondrous stuff supply?'

Huw Morris was born in the year 1622, and died in 1709, having lived in
six reigns. The place of his birth was Pont y Meibion, in the valley of
Ceiriog, in Denbighshire. He was a writer of songs, carols, and elegies,
and was generally termed Eos Ceiriog, or the Nightingale of Ceiriog, a
title which he occasionally well deserved, for some of his pieces,
especially his elegies, are of great beauty and sweetness. Not
unfrequently, however, the title of Dylluan Ceiriog, or the Owl of
Ceiriog, would be far more applicable, for whenever he thought fit he
could screech and hoot most fearfully. He was a loyalist, and some of
his strains against the Roundheads are fraught with the bitterest satire.
His dirge on Oliver and his men, composed shortly after Monk had declared
for Charles II., is a piece quite unique in its way. He lies buried in
the graveyard of the beautiful church of Llan Silien, in Denbigshire.
The stone which covers his remains is yet to be seen just outside the
southern wall, near the porch. The last great poet of Wales was a little
swarthy curate;--but this child of immortality, for such he is, must not
be disposed of in half a dozen lines. The following account of him is
extracted from an unpublished work, called 'Wild Wales,' by the author of
'The Bible in Spain':--

'Goronwy, or Gronwy, Owen was born in the year 1722, at a place
called Llanfair Mathafrn Eithaf, in Anglesea. He was the eldest of
three children. His parents were peasants and so exceedingly poor
that they were unable to send him to school. Even, however, when an
unlettered child he gave indications that he was visited by the awen
or muse. At len