The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . our of sunshine ; and above the twocheeks, red-gold—two broad plaits like the GoldenTables: For the unbraiding of them, long it mighttake;—such gold braids I have seen her let fall,like the wings of a yellow Archangel droopingupon white snow. Shoots, say of one stem ; coilsof one colour ; a grove of yellow broom above theface; ay, gold-jewels like them in the shops ofChepe. You get in this a suggestion of the truepoetic ecstasy of the creature. The shops of Cheap-side, too, had touched his errant fancy ; he oftenreturns to them, indeed, in h
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . our of sunshine ; and above the twocheeks, red-gold—two broad plaits like the GoldenTables: For the unbraiding of them, long it mighttake;—such gold braids I have seen her let fall,like the wings of a yellow Archangel droopingupon white snow. Shoots, say of one stem ; coilsof one colour ; a grove of yellow broom above theface; ay, gold-jewels like them in the shops ofChepe. You get in this a suggestion of the truepoetic ecstasy of the creature. The shops of Cheap-side, too, had touched his errant fancy ; he oftenreturns to them, indeed, in his odes, and makes onethink of the Golden Cheapside that Herrickknew centuries later. Probably the Welsh poet,too, had made one visit to London in Ivors train,or in that of some Autolycus of the shires and hundreds. As you pass again through Newport streets youcan stop before a jewellers window in the HighStreet if you will, realising that a far greater townthan the London of Dafydds time has sprung upwithin a league of Ivors house at 8 CHAPTER IV CAERLEON-ON-USK—THE OLD CITY OF LEGIONS—ECHOES OP THE MORTE DARTHUR—ROMANLADIES AND BRITISH PRINCES. Both Athens, Theabes, and Carthage too,We hold of great renown,What then, I pray yon, shall we doTo poor Caerleon towne. Churchyard. You may not think of Caerleon at once as ashipping-place; but it was once, in the day ofsmall ships, a well-known Severn Sea port. Itwas the old port of Usk, as its neighbour threemiles nearer the mouth of the river was the New-port. One reason for having a shipping-quayfarther from the river-mouth may have been be-cause it was safer from Severn pirates. And, afterall, it is not so far inland as are many famousports to-day—the other Newcastle, for reached and crossed the bridge late oneSeptember evening, having, on the road out ofNewport, passed St. Julians in the dark withoutrealising it. A light drizzle was falling, and thetown was like a deserted place, whose darkness
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