Note 60 — Chapter III
Reading edition
There exists an ancient poem, printed among those of Taliesin, called the “Elegy of Owain ap Urien,” and containing several very beautiful and spirited passages. It commences:
“The soul of Owain ap Urien,
May its Lord consider its exigencies!
Reged’s chief the green turf covers.”
In the course of this Elegy the bard, alluding to the incessant warfare with which this chieftain harassed his Saxon foes, exclaims:
“Could England sleep with the light upon her eyes!”