To the Lady Eleanor Butler and the Hon. Miss Ponsonby Composed in the Grounds of Plas Newydd, near Llangollen, 1824 A STREAM, to mingle with your favorite Dee, Along the Vale of Meditation flows; So styled by those fierce Britons, pleased to see In Nature’s face the expression of repose; Or haply there some pious hermit chose To live and die, the peace of heaven his aim; To whom the wild, sequestered region owes, At this late day, its sanctifying name, Glyn Cafaillgaroch, in the Cambrian tongue, In ours, the Vale of Friendship, let this spot Be named; where, faithful to a low-roofed cot, On Deva’s banks ye have abode so long; Sisters in love, a love allowed to climb, Even on this earth, above the reach of time! |
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