St. 13 _Landeyda_; Name of Danish banner: 'the desolation of the land.'

For further details upon points briefly noticed in this _Prelude_,
readers are referred to Mr. J. R. Green's _History_, and to Mr. T.
Wright's _The Celt_, _The Roman_, and _The Saxon_, as sources readily
accessible.



THE FIRST AND LAST LAND


_AT SENNEN_

Thrice-blest, alone with Nature!--here, where gray
Belerium fronts the spray
Smiting the bastion'd crags through centuries flown,
While, 'neath the hissing surge,
Ocean sends up a deep, deep undertone,

As though his heavy chariot-wheels went round:
Nor is there other sound
Save from the abyss of air, a plaintive note,
The seabirds' calling cry,
As 'gainst the wind with well-poised weight they float,

Or on some white-fringed reef set up their post,
And sentinel the coast:--
Whilst, round each jutting cape, in pillar'd file,
The lichen-bearded rocks