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From “Poly-Olbion”
AND as each one is praised for her peculiar things, | |
| So only she is rich in mountains, meres, and springs, | |
| And holds herself as great in her superfluous waste, | |
| As others by their towns and fruitful tillage graced. | |
| And therefore, to recount her rivers from their lins, | 5 |
| Abridging all delays, Mervinia thus begins: | |
| “Though Dovy, which doth far her neighboring floods surmount | |
| (Whose course for hers alone Montgomery doth account), | |
| Hath Angell for her own, and Keriog she doth clear, | |
| With Towin, Gwedall then, and Dulas, all as dear, | 10 |
| Those tributary streams she is maintained withall; | |
| Yet, boldly may I say, her rising and her fall | |
| My country calleth hers, with many another brook, | |
| That with their crystal eyes on the Vergivian look. | |
| To Dovy next, of which Desunny seaward drives, | 15 |
| Lingorrill goes alone: but plenteous Avon strives | |
| The first to be at sea; and faster her to hie, | |
| Clear Kessilgum comes in, with Hergum by and by. | |
| So Derry Moothy draws, and Moothy calleth Caine, | |
| Which in one channel meet in going to the main, | 20 |
| As to their utmost power to lend her all their aids: | |
| So Atro by the arm Lanbeder kindly leads. | |
| And Velenrid the like, observing the other’s law, | |
| Calls Cunnell; she again fair Drurid forth doth draw, | |
| That from their mother Earth, the rough Mervinia, pay | 25 |
| Their mixed plenteous springs unto the lesser bay | |
| Of those two noble arms into the land that bear, | |
| Which through Gwinethia be so famous everywhere, | |
| On my Carnarvan side by nature made my mound, | |
| As Dovy doth divide the Cardiganian ground. | 30 |
| The pearly Conwaye’s head, as that of holy Dee, | |
| Renowned rivers both, their rising have in me: | |
| So Lavern and the Lue, themselves that headlong throw | |
| Into the spacious lake, where Dee unmixed doth flow. | |
| Trowerrin takes his stream here from a native lin; | 35 |
| Which, out of Pimblemere when Dee himself doth win, | |
| Along with him his lord full courteously doth glide: | |
| So Rudock riseth here, and Cletor that do guide | |
| Him in his rugged path, and make his greatness way, | |
| Their Dee into the bounds of Denbigh to convey.” | 40 |
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