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He was an excellent poet, and displayed in his compositions such elegance of language, and such a knowledge of prosody, that it was customary, long after his death, when any masterpiece of vocal song or eloquence was produced, to say that it bore the traces of Lawdden's hatchet.
As the people were going out I said to the farmer in Welsh: "A bad affair this." "Drwg iawn" very bad indeed, he replied. "Did these fellows speak truth?" said I. "Nage Dim ond celwydd" not they! nothing but lies. "Dear me!" said I to myself, "what an ill-treated individual!" Machynlleth Remarkable Events Ode to Glendower Dafydd Gam Lawdden's Hatchet.
Not without reason, therefore, do the inhabitants of Machynlleth consider the residence of such a man within their walls, though at a far by-gone period, as conferring a lustre on their town, and Lewis Meredith has probability on his side when, in his pretty poem on Glen Dyfi, he says: "Whilst fair Machynlleth decks thy quiet plain, Conjoined with it shall Lawdden's name remain."
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