Inscription Proposed for the Vase Presented to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn

"Ask ye why around me twine
Tendrils of the Gascon vine?
Ask ye why, in martial pride,
Sculptured laurels deck my side,
Blended with that noble tree,
Badge of Albion's liberty?
Cambria me, for glory won
By the waves of broad Garonne,
Sends to greet her bravest son!
Proved beyond the western deep
By rebel clans on Ulster's steep;
Proved, where first on Gallia's plain
The banished lily bloomed again;
And proved where ancient bounty calls
The traveller to his father's halls!
Nor marvel, then, that round me twine
The oak, the laurel, and the vine;
For thus was Cambria wont to see
Her Hirlas Miorn of victory:
Nor Cambria e'er, in days of yore,
To worthier chief the Hirlas bore!"