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Nor shall thy horns nor thy hoofs
Fall to the lot of false Eiddig^[1].
Thou shalt be preserved against treachery,
With the strength of the arm of Cyhelyn^[2].
I will ever welcome thee,
Should I live to old age, thou
With horns like Eglantine.

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TO THE GULL.

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The bard asks the gull to be his love-envoy to Morvyth. Morvyth (Morfydd) was a lady to whom the poet was attached through life, and whose beauty forms the chief theme of his poems.

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Bird that dwellest in the spray,
White as yon moon’s calm array,
Dust thy beauty ne’er may stain,
Sunbeam-gauntlet of the main^[3]!

1. i.e. Jealousy—a name applied by the bards to their rivals.
2. An ancient Welsh hero.
3. This epithet seems to imply a comparison between the gull, with its wings extended over the sea, to the spreading finger of a gauntlet.