Excerpt from At the Font of Eryri: A Book About Poetry in Wales Once I spent a summer's night out at sea on the deck of a boat. Our pilot, fearing the shoals, held the boat up in the lee of a great rock, to await the daylight. I had never seen the day break, and I looked long and steadfastly up at the eastern sky. Suddenly the man said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.