. Owen Glyndwr and the last struggle for Welsh independence, with a brief sketch of Welsh history;. Wales, to gentler and moreliterary themes. The joys of agriculture and countrylife, the happiness of the peasant, the song of birds,the murmur of streams, and, above all, the gentlerpassions of human nature had supplanted to a greatextent the fiercer notes of martial eulogies, the paeansof victory, and the plaintive wails over long-past butunforgotten defeats. It is strange, too, that this flowof song should have signalised a century when theprofession of a wandering minstrel was in Wales forthe
. Owen Glyndwr and the last struggle for Welsh independence, with a brief sketch of Welsh history;. Wales, to gentler and moreliterary themes. The joys of agriculture and countrylife, the happiness of the peasant, the song of birds,the murmur of streams, and, above all, the gentlerpassions of human nature had supplanted to a greatextent the fiercer notes of martial eulogies, the paeansof victory, and the plaintive wails over long-past butunforgotten defeats. It is strange, too, that this flowof song should have signalised a century when theprofession of a wandering minstrel was in Wales forthe first time ostracised by law. But the old martial minstrelsy was not dead. Theyearning of the soldier and the man of ancient raceto emulate the deeds or the supposed deeds of hispredecessors, and to be the subject after death ofbardic eulogy in hall or castle, was still strong. Ithelped many a warrior to meet with cheerfulness a 236 Owen Glyndwr [1403-14041 bloody death, or with the memory of heroic deedsperformed to sink with resignation at the hands ofdisease or old age into the cold
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