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V. BARMOUTH SHORE.
A WALK TO LLANABER.
The sea was moveless azure in the bay,Yet the blue sea of Heaven was white with foam,
As if the winds for mischief's sake would roam
To steal the sense of too great calm away.
Great Turra stretched a marvellous inlay
Of wall and wood towards the Giant's home;
And Hebog's hill, Carnarvon's bride, had come
Across the waters in her veil of grey.
I left the rushy hillocks, and I strolled
Along the purple shore that pulsed with heat,
To where Llanaber's fathers o'er the tide
Sleep till the tides are not;—a death-bell tolled—
Rest for the weary-hearted ones is sweet,
Dear God! to-day 'twere bitter to have died!
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