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Am swynysci Math,
Cyn bum diaered.
" I had been marked by Kind,
Before I became immortal."
And again : — ^' The points of the 7nimic trees, what do
they K'hisper so forcibly, and what breathings are in theîî
roots ? — These are read by the sages."
In another place : — When the removal took place, I was
n^arked by the chief, amongst the mwltitude of the arts of
the sages, — imitators of nature."
if NATURE marked, or pointed out the several plants, a*
appropriate symbols of speech, and of its elements; — if to
them she assigned the office, and province of composing,
and οΐ analizing languages, it is evident, that every element
of language, was understood, in those days, to have a distinct
character, marked, axiajixed by nature.
Upon this gi-ound, the same Bard separately describes
the genius, disposition, or action of the sywŵo /.s,— evidently
impl^'ing the force, or the import, which their con-espond-
ing powers Avere understood then to possess, in the forma-
tion of lauguagc.
2. Trees, and plants, that are selected as the symbols, —
present obvious, and very natural characters : they suggest
the same ideas, which are marked in the descriptions of the
Bard.
3. The names, by which these plants, — considered as the
symbols, — are distinguished in the Irish language, — arc