Who first shall rest here? God o'er all doth reign,
The life He gave us we must give again.
Our chiefest duty here to work and strive
To His great glory while we are alive,
And He some resting place will then provide,
Or far from town or by the Cletwr's tide.




IEUAN GWYNEDD.


Evan Jones was born near Dolgelley, September 20th, 1820. He was
ordained to the Independent ministry in 1845. Always weakly, he found a
pastoral charge too great a strain on his health, and he devoted himself
to literary pursuits, but he died Feb. 23, 1852, having in his short life
served his country well. His Life and Works were published in 1876,
"Hanes Bywyd a Gweithiau Barddonol Ieuan Gwynedd" (Hughes & Son,
Wrexham).



The Cottages of Wales.


Fair cottages of Cymru, with walls of gleaming white,
Whose smoke curls round the valley and up the mountain height;
The bees hum 'neath the gable or sheltering garden wall,