Wild Wales: Its People, Language And Scenery By George Borrow





































































 -   I thought on the times 
when the Beal fire blazed on this height, on the neighbouring 
promontory, on the cope - Page 336
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I Thought On The Times When The Beal Fire Blazed On This Height, On The Neighbouring Promontory, On The Cope-Stone Of Eryri, And On Every High Hill Throughout Britain On The Eve Of The First Of May.

I thought on the day when the bands of Suetonius crossed the Menai strait in their broad-bottomed boats,

Fell upon the Druids and their followers, who with wild looks and brandished torches lined the shore, slew hundreds with merciless butchery upon the plains, and pursued the remainder to the remotest fastnesses of the isle. I figured to myself long-bearded men with white vestments toiling up the rocks, followed by fierce warriors with glittering helms and short broad two-edged swords; I thought I heard groans, cries of rage, and the dull, awful sound of bodies precipitated down rocks. Then as I looked towards the sea I thought I saw the fleet of Gryffith Ab Cynan steering from Ireland to Aber Menai, Gryffith, the son of a fugitive king, born in Ireland, in the Commot of Columbcille, Gryffith the frequently baffled, the often victorious; once a manacled prisoner sweating in the sun, in the market-place of Chester, eventually king of North Wales; Gryffith, who "though he loved well the trumpet's clang loved the sound of the harp better"; who led on his warriors to twenty-four battles, and presided over the composition of the twenty-four measures of Cambrian song. Then I thought -. But I should tire the reader were I to detail all the intensely Welsh thoughts which crowded into my head as I stood on the Cairn of the Grey Giant.

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