Holl Waith Barddonol Goronwy Owen/On Captain Thomas Foulkes

Holl Waith Barddonol Goronwy Owen

gan Goronwy Owen

golygwyd gan Isaac Foulkes

ON CAPTAIN THOMAS FOULKES

Escape in a Great Storm, Sept. 10th, 1741, when he was drove by a hard gale at East from
Alanus Point to the north of Ireland, and had all his rigging and sails demolished.

QUID crepat! Haud intra ripas se continet æquor
Numquid dejectum tecta, feruntur aquæ?
Væ misero nautæ pelago qui credere vitam
Sustinet, insanis jam periturus aquis;
Qualiter! heu quali fremitu furit Eurus in undas
Qualiter oppositam verberat unda ratem?
Vertice jam cœlum tangit, jam fertur in Orcum,
Spreta sibi quondam littora nauta cupit
Iratum numen Pelagi prece vexat inani;
Littus ut attingat millia vota vovet.
Stulte, nimis sero moriundus pectora plangis,
Sero nimis, periens æquore, littus amas.
Si semel attinges littus, ne rursus ad æquor
Vela daturus eas, ne patiaris idem;

Kybæ^[1] Templum petito cum vestibus udis
Quas suspende, memor quanta pericla fugis.

Nodiadau

↑ Kybi is the Patron Saint of Holyhead, and the Church is called after his name. There is a Sea Quadrant hung up in the said Church in memory of seventeen voyages to the West Indies performed by the help of the said Quadrant by Jno. Wheldon, Mariner.

[1] Kybi is the Patron Saint of Holyhead, and the Church is called after his name. There is a Sea Quadrant hung up in the said Church in memory of seventeen voyages to the West Indies performed by the help of the said Quadrant by Jno. Wheldon, Mariner.

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