Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Wales: Ewias | | Ewias | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | From “Poly-Olbion”
THE BRITONS, like devout, their messengers direct | |
| To David, that he would their ancient right protect. | |
| ’Mongst Hatterill’s lofty hills, that with the clouds are crowned, | |
| The valley Ewias lies, immured so deep and round, | |
| As they below, that see the mountains rise so high, | 5 |
| Might think the straggling herds were grazing in the sky: | |
| Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear, | |
| As Nature at the first appointed it for prayer: | |
| Where, in an aged cell, with moss and ivy grown, | |
| In which not to this day the sun hath ever shone, | 10 |
| That reverend British saint, in zealous ages past, | |
| To contemplation lived; and did so truly fast, | |
| As he did only drink what crystal Hodney yields, | |
| And fed upon the leeks he gathered in the fields. | |
| In memory of whom, in the revolving year, | 15 |
| The Welchmen on his day that sacred herb do wear. | | | | |
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