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Inscribed in black ink upper right: "5"; in graphite center: "x"; on verso in black ink upper left: "6"; in graphite center: "x | + | + "

Lettered on inlaid page: "A PINDARIC ODE. 97 | 'Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert-cave, | 'Sigh to the torrent's awful voice beneath! | 'O'er thee, oh King! their hundred arms | 'they wave, | 'Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe; | 'Vocal no more, since Cambria's fatal day, | 'To high-born Hoel's harp, or soft Llewel- | 'lyn's lay. | I. 3. | 'Cold is Cadwallo's tongue, | 'That hush'd the stormy main: | 'Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed: | 'Mountains, ye mourn in vain | 'Modred, whose magic song | 'Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-top'd | 'head. | G4 'On"; Lettered on verso, on inlaid page: "98 THE BARD. | 'On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, | 'Smear'd with gore, and ghastly pale: | 'Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail; | 'The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. | 'Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, | 'Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes, | 'Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, | 'Ye died amidst your dying country's cries-- | 'No more I weep. They do not sleep. | 'On yonder cliffs, a griesly band, | 'I see them sit, they linger yet, | 'Avengers of their native land: | 'With me in dreadful harmony they join, | 'And weave with bloody hands the tissue of | 'thy line.' | II. 1. | 'Weave the warp, and weave the woof, | 'The winding-sheet of Edward's race. | 'Give"