CHAPTER I.--EXILES, OLD AND NEW.


"_O what have we ta'en_?" _said the fisher-prince_,
"_What have we ta'en this morning's tide_?
_Get thee down to the wave_, _my carl_,
_And row me the net to the meadow's-side_."

_In he waded, the fisher-carl_,
_And_ "_Here_," _quoth he_, "_is a wondrous thing_!
_A cradle_, _prince_, _and a fair man-child_,
_Goodly to see as the son of a king_!"

_The fisher-prince he caught the word_,
_And_ "_Hail_," _he cried_, "_to the king to be_!
_Stranger he comes from the storm and the night_;
_But his fame shall wax, and his name be bright_,
_While the hills look down on the Cymry sea_."

FINDING OF TALIESIN.

Elphin, son of Gwyddno, the prince who ruled the coasts between the Dovey
and the Ystwith, came down on a May-day morning to his father's fishing-
weir. All that was taken that morning was to be Elphin's, had Gwyddno
said. Not a fish was taken that day; and Elphin, who was ever a luckless
youth, would have gone home empty-handed, but that one of his men found,