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Rh Then comes the conflict; the ‘dragon of Mon’ was waiting:—

In his rendering of these last lines Gray follows close upon the sublimity of the original:—

But Gwalchmei is hard to equal on his own ground.

We will now leave him. Suffice for the time what has been written, to give some little idea of the pearls that still wait to be brought up to the sight of the world. They are none the less pearls, and of great price, because they have not hitherto glittered before the eyes of the multitude. Another time we may return to Gwalchmei the son of Meilyr.