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Deputy in the government of Ireland. In this post he was described by Ludlow as discharging his trust with great diligence, ability, and integ- rity. When Ludlow returned to England it was Jones that he selected to command the forces in iceland. This office he was said to have dis- charged with great tyranny "persecuting all who were contrary to his principles, raking up oU laws concerning the brewing of ale and beer, and not suffering anyone to enjoy a public employ- ment who was seen to go into an alehouse," so that to go into an alehouse or a regular church became crimes equally dangerous and punishable. Jones, with most of the Irish officers, sup- ported Lambert in his quarrel with Parliament. For a time then, the Army and the Parliament were at each other's throats. Lambert might drive out the Parliament as Oliver had done be- fore him, but he was no Cromwell, and had no following among the people. There was only one man who saw clearly the one way to restore *The Anglo-Cymric School of Poets. By Lewis Davies, B.A. THE word Anglo-Cymric raises at once the question of nationality, and especially that of language. It further implies a comparison between the output of English verse by those of Welsh blood and associations, and that of the body of English poetry. Though the first may at times seem small in amount and not of high importance as regards form and content, several things have strongly to be borne in mind:- (a) That West of the Severn and the Dee there are to-day whole tracts of country, with scores of thousands of people, who use a living language that was spoken before the Romans set forth to conquer our land. The huivival of our tongue, even in the face of centuries of pressure from a strong world- spread rival language, is one of the miracles of linguistic vitality. While Gaelic and Erse have practically succumbed before the onset of English, Welsh still survives in all its strength and beauty. (b) The impulse of any man who is moved to express himself artistically is to use the medium that is nearest to his heart and soul- the medium where the experiences of the people of his own blood are already enshrined. Up to quite recent times Welshmen have naturally expressed themselves in Welsh, since they wished to appeal to those of their own nation; and that is why so few Welsh poets have attempted to express their thoughts in English. Notes of a Lecture delivered before the Cardiff Rotary Club on September 7th, 1925. a stable government and to content the nation. Monk was determined to restore legal and con- stitutional rule. He scattered Lambert's troops and seized London. In December, 1659, Colonel Jones was arrested by his officers, he had made no effort to escape from the country as many of Oliver's supporters had done. Early in 1660 he was impeached for high treason, but was released on an engagement not to disturb the government. The restoration exposed him to certain ruin; a supporter and friend of Oliver and no friend of Monk's, there was little hope for him, but he made no attempt to fly. He was excepted from the Act of Indemnity, arrested, and sentenced to death. On the 17th of October, 1660, this son of a Merionethshire squire; some- time servant to the Lord Mayor of London, friend of Cromwell, and representative of the Common- wealth in Ireland, was executed at Charing Cross, opposite that window where, nearly twelve years before, Charles, King of England, had died. William Sharp, in his introduction to Lyra Celtica, acknowledged this to be due to the isolation of Wales through her language, and to the passionate attachment of the Cymry of to- day to their language, as strong amongst the unlettered as amongst ardent scholars. The force and vitality of Welsh are not to be judged from the streets of Cardiff nor from its use in the industrial valleys of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, where there has been a large influx of people from the border counties of England. (c) Any person who wishes to glean the richness of the soul of Greece learns Greek, and he who desires to divine the genius of Rome learns Latin. But there are people who think they can divine the whole scope of the Welsh soul without learning the language in which it is expressed. The man who will not learn Greek and Latin cannot claim to be a scholar in the real sense of the word: so those who will not (or cannot) learn Welsh shut themselves out from a large field of experi- ence, knowledge, and beauty, and are so much the poorer. (d) When the charge is made that the Scoto-Celtic writers of to-day, both in prose and poetry, have produced more Anglo-Celtic literature than Wales has done since the beginning of the century and Ireland again in poetry, at any rate, has given us even more than Scotland," some qualifying thoughts should strongly be borne in mind: (i) The amount of poetry produced in Gaelic and Erse is of very small proportion, while that of Welsh is comparatively like a broad and stately river. (ii) Scotland depends largely for her Anglo- Celtic literature upon a dialect. Especi-