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And many a brach,! and many a hound,
Attend Llewellyn’s horn.

And still he blew a louder blast,
And gave a louder cheer;
* Come, Gelert, why art thou the last
Llewellyn’s horn to hear?

“« Where does my faithful Gelert roam ?
The flower of all his race ;
So true, so brave; a lamb at home,
A lion in the chase.”

*Twas only at Llewellyn’s board
The faithful Gelert fed;

He watched, he served, he cheered his lord,
And sentineled? his bed.

In sooth he was a peerless hound,
The gift of royal John :*

But now no Gelert could be found,
And all the chase rode on.

And now, as over rocks and dells
The huntsmen’s cheerings rise,
All Snowdon’s craggy chaos‘ yells
With many mingled cries.
That day Llewellyn little loved
The chase of hart or hare,
And scant and small the booty proved,
For Gelert was not there.
1 Brach—a female hound.
2 Sentineled—watched as a sentinel.
3 Royal John—King John of England.

4 Craggy chaos—confused mass of craggy rocks, which
formed the mountain.