With his attendants here at break of morn, Wandering by stealth abroad he chanced to hear A startling outcry made by hound and horn, From which the tusky Boar hath fled in fear, And, etc. STANZA 16 Feebly returned by {wandering} Artegal, {trembling} STANZA 17 {Heir of Gorbonian! Brother gladly met, } {Gorbonian's heir, my brother gladly met,} STANZA 25 And what if o'er this bright unbosoming A cloud of time, and envious fortune past! Have we not seen the glories of the spring By noontide darkness veiled and overcast? The lakes that glittered like a sunbright shield, The sky, the gay green field, All vanish in a moment, as if night Were sister to the sun, and darkness born of light. STANZA 26 But should the sun victorious glimmer forth, Far brighter seems the wide world than before: Such power is latent in thy native worth, To spread delight and joy from shore to shore: For past misdeeds how grateful to atone, Re-seated on thy throne, Give proof that long adversity, and pain, And sorrow have confirmed thy inborn right to reign. From STANZA 28 to end The story tells that Artegal away Was by his brother privily conveyed To a far distant city (at that day Alclwyd named), whose fortress undismayed By the hostility of mortals stood In sight of field and flood, Obnoxious only on the lofty Rock To the careering storm, and perilous lightning stroke. When this impregnable retreat was gained, In prudent furtherance of his just intent, King Elidure a mortal illness feigned, And to his mightiest Lords a summons sent Softly, and one by one into the gloom, (As suits a sick man's room), The attendants introduced each potent peer, There, singly and alone, his sovereign will to hear. Said Elidure, Behold our rightful King, The banished Artegal, before thee stands: Kneel, and renew to him the offering Of thy allegiance; justice this demands, Immortal justice, speaking through my voice, Accept him, and rejoice. ... he will prove Worthier than I have been of reverence and love. If firm command and mild persuasion failed To change the temper of an adverse mind, With such by other engines he prevailed, Threatening to fling their bodies to the wind From the dread summit of the lonely block, That castle-crested Rock, Alclwyd then, but now Dunbarton named, A memorable crag through spacious Albion famed.