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Wild Wales

CHAPTER XXXVII
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Anglesey, was always famous for graduate bards, for what says Black Robin?
"'Though Arvon graduate bards can boast, Yet more canst thou, O Anglesey.'" "I suppose by graduate bard you mean one who has gained the chair at an eisteddfod ?" said the man in grey.

"No, I have never gained the silver chair--I have never had an opportunity.

I have been kept out of the eisteddfodau.

There is such a thing as envy, sir--but there is one comfort, that envy will not always prevail." "No," said I; "envy will not always prevail--envious scoundrels may chuckle for a time at the seemingly complete success of the dastardly arts to which they have recourse, in order to crush merit--but Providence is not asleep.

All of a sudden they see their supposed victim on a pinnacle far above their reach.


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