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Thence if the savage Sassenach should hound me

Into the heart of gallant little Wales,

O may some suitable retreat be found me

Amid fair Cambria's enchanting vales;

For I have ever been, and am, a glutton

For all things Welsh-from music down to mutton.

Yes, Wales I love, home of the bilious bunny;
Home of my fiery namesake, Mr. Gee ;

Whose heather yields the most delicious honey,

Whose Bards are countless as the sands o' Dee.

Whose leek, to any educated nose,

Is sweeter than the overrated rose.

There, to assuage the thirsty native throttle,

My noble and accomplished friend Lord Bute1

In South Wales, Lord Bute has had a vineyard for nineteen years, and he has made good wine from his grapes. Lord Bute's

Fertili Baccho minimum Falernis

Invidet uvis.

Ille te mecum locus et beatæ

Postulant arces; ibi tu calentein

Debita sparges lacrima favillam

Vatis amici

Grows splendid wine at nine-and-six the bottle—

A most refined and lucrative pursuit.

In fact, there's not 'the differ of' a bouton

"Twixt Mouton Rothschild and this Cymru Mouton

There Watkin's high but hospitable châlet

Will oftentimes invite us for a climb

By slow and easy stages from the valley,
To hoary Snowdon's pinnacle sublime
There let us live and die, and dying, win
Meet elegy from Morris of Penbryn.

head gardener says that some of the wine from the 1881 crop realised 115s. a dozen when sold by auction at Birmingham last year. This crop was grown at Castell Coch. Lord Bute has now another large vineyard on the shore of the Bristol Channel, where theGamy Nori' grapes last year gave forty hogsheads of wine of the best quality.'-Daily Graphic, September 17, 1894.

AD LICINIUM MURENAM

RECTIUS Vives, Licini, neque altum

Semper urgendo neque, dum procellas Cautus horrescis, nimium premendo

Litus iniquum.

Auream quisquis mediocritatem

Diligit, tutus caret obsoleti

Sordibus tecti, caret invidenda

Sobrius aula.

AD MILESIUM GLORIOSUM

TWOULD please me greatly, dear Tay Pay,

If from exaggeration's sway

You could be weaned.

I m not, although you'd have it so,

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