PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Vol. 108.June 15, 1895.
edited by Sir Francis Burnand
ROUNDABOUT READINGS.
There is, of course, to be an Eisteddfod in 1896; and it appearsthat the Llandudno Executive Committee have been making somerevolutionary proposals with reference to it. They have resolvedthat they "respectfully desire that the Gorsedd will see its way toconcur in the subject for the chairbeing in any metre, and not restrictedto an awdl. The Committeeare aware that the awdl has antiquityand custom in its favour, but,while calculated to develop skill inmetrical composition, the local Committeefeel that the necessity ofcomposing in the form of an awdlis fettering to the conception andimagination." I cannot say whatan awdl is, but I am dead againstfetters, and, therefore, I say, downwith the dastardly, fettering awdl.
Swift, strike off the fetters, wherever they're found,
Let the song-loving Welshman go free and unbound.
To the awdl too long has he bended his knee,
But its fate has been sealed, and the Welshman is free;
As free as his ocean, as free as his breezes,
He shall write as he likes, in what metre he pleases;
And he faces his Gorsedd, and vows he won't dawdle
A manacled slave in the train of the awdl.
After this it seems somewhat bald and prosaic to read that
On the recommendation of "Hwfa Mon" (the Archdruid), "Eifionydd"(the registrar), "Cadvan," "Pedrog," "Gwynedd," and "Dyfed," of theGorsedd Committee, who stated that the subject chosen for the arwrgerdd(heroic poem), for which a prize of £20 and a silver crown is offered, was unsuitablefor an arwrgerdd, the subject was changed, "Llewelyn Fawr" beingsubstituted for "St. Tudno."—Instead of the galar-gan, the subject of whichwas "Clwydfardd," for which £15 was the prize, it was decided to offer aprize of £15 and a gold medal for the best awdl on "Clwydfardd," theGorsedd stating that an awdl would be much more appropriate, as the lateArchdruid was a great admirer of the twenty-four metres. Instead of the hira thoddaid "Cestyll Cymru" (Castles of Wales) it was decided to offer aprize of £2 2s. for the best hir a thoddaid "Beddargraph 'Elis Wyn oWyrfai,'" and also £2 2s. for the best hir a thoddaid "Beddargraph 'Tudno.'"
The Bishop of Hereford has requested the parishes in his dioceseto send up petitions respecting the Armenian atrocities. One of theseparishes is Walford-on-Wye, and I propose to confer immortalityupon the reply sent by its Vicar to the Bishop.
"I regret" (says this truly Christian cleric) "having been unable to respondin the way you desired to your appeal respecting the persecution ofChristians in Armenia. My not doing so was owing to the circumstancethat at the present time a remonstrance from our nation can have no moralweight whatever. We have now in office a Government which is exercisingall its ingenuity in plans for the persecution and plunder of Christians here,and so long as we tolerate the continuance of such a Government in office theTurk would be justified in telli
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