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and could not, therefore, be consulted. How-ever, daybreak overtook David and his harp while wending the way homewards. The young minstrel sat on a stone, which is still pointed out by the inhabitants, to watch a sky-lark above him giving vent to its merriment at the appearance of the dawn; and there and then played upon his harp the air known ever since a s ' C o d i a d y r Hedydd.'"
The story of the "Maid of Mona's Isle," written to the old melody of " Hobed O Hilion" (" A Bushel of Fragments") is, says the author, Professor Rowlands, ideally true. " It bears," continues the writer in his note, " some resem-blance to the 'Stars of Normandie,5 but the author had not seen that song when he wrote this. Some years ago he happened to be at a railway station, when he observed a beautiful lady with a sorrowful countenance going round the carriages of a newly arrived train. He was told that her young husband had a long time previously gone abroad, and had never been heard of afterwards. His friends had given him up as lost; but his faithful wife still persisted in believing that he would return, and from day to day met every arriving train for years, with the vain hope of seeing
him."
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