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Updated: June 20, 2025
"I do not farm," said the man in grey, "I keep an inn." "Keep an inn?" said I. "Yes," said the man in grey. "The Arms at L-." "Sure," said I, "inn-keeping and bardism are not very cognate pursuits?" "You are wrong," said the man in grey; "I believe the awen, or inspiration, is quite as much at home in the bar as in the barn, perhaps more.
His features were rude, but full of wild, strange expression; below the picture was the following couplet: "Llun Gwr yw llawn gwir Awen; Y Byd a lanwodd o'i Ben." "Did you ever hear of Twm o'r Nant?" said the old dame. "I never heard of him by word of mouth," said I; "but I know all about him I have read his life in Welsh, written by himself, and a curious life it is.
From his being born on the banks of the brook Ceiriog, and from the flowing melody of his awen or muse, his countrymen were in the habit of calling him Eos Ceiriog, or the Ceiriog Nightingale. So John Jones and myself set off across the Berwyn to visit the birthplace of the great poet Huw Morris. We ascended the mountain by Allt Paddy.
To the Welsh, besides being the hill of the Awen or Muse, it has always been the hill of hills, the loftiest of all mountains, the one whose snow is the coldest, to climb to whose peak is the most difficult of all feats; and the one whose fall will be the most astounding catastrophe of the last day.
But the second day, for not haiffing their awen place as the Papist Bisschoppis of auld had, unto quhois place and dignitie they wer now restorit fully in judgment, quhilk wes befoir the Erles, nixt eftir the Marquesses, thai would not ryde at all, but went to the House of Parliament quyetlie on fuit.
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