“Fill the horn with foaming liquor, Fill it up, my boy, be quicker; Hence away despair and sorrow, Time enough to sigh to-morrow. Let the brimming goblet smile, And Ednyfed’s cares beguile. Gallant youth, unus’d to fear, Master of the broken spear; And the arrow-pierced shield, Brought with honour from the field. Like a hurricane is he Bursting on the troubled sea. See their spears distain’d with gore, Hear the din of battle roar, Bucklers, swords, together clashing, Sparkles from their helmets flashing, Hear ye not their loud alarms? Hark! they shout—to arms! to arms! Thus were Garthen’s plains defended, Melor fight, began and ended: There two princes fought: and there Was Mowrach Vowran’s feast exchang’d for rout and fear.” {224} The rail-road and inclined planes formed by the late Lord Penrhyn, to reduce the labour and risk of bringing down the slates to the port, with numerous other improvements, are estimated to have cost his lordship one hundred and seventy thousand pounds. The much-admired church of Llandegai is a neat Gothic edifice, which has recently been greatly improved and beautified; the late Lady Penrhyn having left a noble bequest for that purpose. “The whole interior has been renewed, viz. the seats, pulpit, communion, ceiling, plaistering, and floor, and the tower raised, in order to admit a peal of six bells: a legacy for which has been also left by Lady Penrhyn, as well as one for the erection of a monument to her deceased lord, which is now fixed up in the church, and is a most superb and elegant piece of work.”—_Williams_. It is made of statuary marble, and represents two large figures; the one is a female peasant girl weeping over the loss of her deceased lord and lady; the other a quarryman, with an iron bar and slate knife in his hand, earnestly regarding the inscription, which commemorates his benefactors. Besides these, the following four smaller figures strongly depict the wonderful changes effected on the face of the country, and on the morals, habits, and comforts of its inhabitants, by the noble and spirited exertions of the late Lord Penrhyn. The first is a boy, with two reeds in his mouth, feeding his goats on the mountains, being an emblem of this country, on its appearance to Lord Penrhyn when it was in a very rough state. 2nd, Two boys working in the slate quarry; being an emblem of industry. 3rd, One boy teaching another; being an emblem of religion. 4th, Three boys standing in a wheat field, bearing their sickles; being an emblem or representation of plenty. Here likewise are interred the remains of the celebrated Archbishop Williams; who is represented in his robes, in a kneeling position, on a mural monument.