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FAMOUS SONGS
Apart from the songs to which I more par-ticularly refer, there are numberless others with legends and stories of purely local fame, and for these the reader is directed to any of the collected labours of the writers and musicians given above. Many of the folk-songs are very quaint and entertaining, and the numerous fairy and fan-tastic lyrics are full of delicate and humoristic touches. The " Goblin on the Lake," to the tune of " Distyll y Drain," by the way, is a capital example of a modern imitation of the old style. The " Strolling Fiddler" is also a good song. The song "Wrth Edrych Yn 01" ("Why Lingers Thy Gaze"), with English words by Mrs. Hemans, deserves mention on account of the belief that the original song was written in commemoration of those early Welsh explorers who are said to have been the fore-runners of Columbus in the discovery of the new world. "A Triad mentions, as one of three missing ones of the Island of Britain: Madog ab Owen Gwynedd ("Lady Owen's Delight' is the name of the air), s who went to sea with three hundred men in ten ships, and it is unknown whither they went/—these words contain all that is really known of the Prince's naval explorations; and on this bare fact of his departure, conjecture has founded the interesting
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