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D Cymmrodor.

AN ELEGIAC POEM

IN MEMORY OF THE REV. GORONWY OWEN,

BY

LEWIS MORRIS, Esq., OF PENBRYN.1

FRIEND, dead and gone so long!

Was it not well with thee, while yet thy tread
Gladdened this much-loved land of thine and ours?

Came not thy footsteps sometimes through life's flowers?
Knew'st thou no crown but that which bears the thorn?
Amid the careless crowd, obscure, forlorn;
Who sittest now among the blessed dead
Crowned with immortal song?

A humble peasant boy,

Reared amid penury through youth's fair years, The fugitive joys of youth thou didst despise, Ease, sport, the kindling glance of maiden's eyes; Thou knew'st no other longing but desire,

With young lips parching with the sacred fire,

To drink deep draughts of knowledge mixed with tears—
A dear-bought innocent joy.

1 Suggested by the Rev. Robert Jones's Life and Works of the Rev. Goronwy Owen.

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