Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Wales: Plynlimmon | | Plynillimon | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | From “Poly-Olbion”
PLYNILLIMON’S high praise no longer, Muse, defer, | |
| What once the Druids told, how great those floods should be | |
| That here (most mighty hill) derive themselves from thee. | |
| The bards with fury rapt, the British youth among, | |
| Unto the charming harp thy future honor song | 5 |
| In brave and lofty strains; that in excess of joy, | |
| The beldam and the girl, the grandsire and the boy, | |
| With shouts and yearning cries, the troubled air did load | |
| (As when with crowned cups unto the Elian god | |
| Those priests his orgies held; or when the old world saw | 10 |
| Full Phœbe’s face eclipsed, and thinking her to daw, | |
| Whom they supposed fallen in some inchanted swound), | |
| Of beaten tinkling brass still plied her with the sound), | |
| That all the Cambrian hills, which high’st their heads do bear | |
| With most obsequious shows of low subjected fear, | 15 |
| Should to thy greatness stoop: and all the brooks that be | |
| Do homage to those floods that issued out of thee. | | | | |
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