WILD WALES by George Borrow

Taliesin called the Saxon race the Coiling Serpent......His prophesy, in which he speaks of the Saxons and Britons, and of the result of their struggle:

"A serpent which coils,

And with fury boils,

From Germany coming with arm'd wings spread,

Shall subdue and shall enthrall

The broad Britain all,

From the Lochlin ocean to Severn's bed.

"And British men

Shall be captives then

To strangers from Saxonia's strand;

They shall praise their God, and hold

Their language as of old,

But except wild Wales they shall lose their land.""