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Rh Solomon did obtain

In Babel's tower,

All the sciences

In Asia land.

So did I obtain,

In my bardic books,

All the sciences

Of Europe and Africa.

Their course, their bearing,

Their permitted way,

And their fate I know,

Unto the end.

Oh! what misery,

Through extreme of woe,

Prophecy will show

On Troia's race!

A coiling serpent

Proud and merciless,

On her golden wings,

From Germany.

She will overrun

England and Scotland,

From Lychlyn sea-shore

To the Severn.

Then will the Brython

Be as prisoners,

By strangers swayed,

From Saxony.

Their Lord they will praise,

Their speech they will keep,

Their land they will lose,

Except wild Walia.

Till some change shall come,

After long penance,

When equally rife

The two crimes come.

Britons then shall have

Their land and their crown,

And the stranger swarm

Shall disappear.