In Cornwall and Across the Sea With Poems Written in Devonshire. By Douglas B. W. Sladen |
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RIALOBRAN, THE SON OF CUNOVAL.
Rialobran, the Son of Cunoval,This is inscribed in Latin on a stone,
Rough hewn and rudely lettered, standing lone
Beneath Carn Galva. Was he general
Or hero? Did he valiantly fall
Fighting the Saxon? Did wild women moan
Over a bulwark of the people gone?
Why shared he not the common fate of all,
Who lived and died and were forgotten here,
That his one stone the moors of Penwith hold,
Gay-gardened at the season of the year
With bramble-fruit, heath-purple, and gorse-gold,
And with two castles of his ancient race
Guarding in ruined pride his burial place.
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