cave
  Sighs to the torrent’s awful voice beneath! 
  O’er thee, oh king! their hundred arms they wave,
  Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe,
  Vocal no more, since Cambria’s fatal day,
  To high-born Hoel’s harp or soft Llewellyn’s lay.

  I. 3

  ’Cold is Cadwallo’s tongue,
  That hushed the stormy main;
  Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed;
  Mountains, ye mourn in vain
  Modred, whose magic song
  Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-topped head: 
  On dreary Arvon’s shore they lie,
  Smeared with gore and ghastly pale;
  Far, far aloof th’ affrighted ravens sail;
  The famished eagle screams, and passes by. 
  Dear lost companions of my tuneful art,
  Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes,
  Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart,
  Ye died amidst your dying country’s cries—­
  No more I weep:  they do not sleep! 
  On yonder cliffs, a grisly band,
  I see them sit; they linger yet
  Avengers of their native land: 
  With me in dreadful harmony they join,
  And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.

  II. 1

  ’Weave the warp and weave the woof,
  The winding-sheet of Edward’s race;
  Give ample room and verge enough
  The characters of hell to trace: 
  Mark the year, and mark the night,
  When Severn shall re-echo with affright
  The shrieks of death through Berkley’s roofs that ring,
  Shrieks of an agonizing king!

  She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,
  That tear’st the bowels of thy mangled mate,
  From thee be born who o’er thy country hangs
  The scourge of Heaven:  what terrors round him wait! 
  Amazement in his van, with Flight combined,
  And Sorrow’s faded form, and Solitude behind.

  II. 2

  ’Mighty victor, mighty lord! 
  Low on his funeral couch he lies: 
  No pitying heart, no eye, afford
  A tear to grace his obsequies. 
  Is the Sable Warrior fled? 
  Thy son is gone; he rests among the dead. 
  The swarm that in thy noontide beam were born? 
  Gone to salute the rising morn. 
  Fair laughs the morn and soft the zephyr blows,
  While, proudly riding o’er the azure realm,
  In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,
  Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm,
  Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind’s sway,
  That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.

  II. 3

  ’Fill high the sparkling bowl,
  The rich repast prepare;
  Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast: 
  Close by the regal chair
  Fell Thirst and Famine scowl
  A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. 
  Heard ye the din of battle bray,
  Lance to lance, and horse to horse? 
  Long years of havoc urge their destined course,
  And through the kindred squadrons mow their way. 
  Ye towers of Julius, London’s lasting