To Dyfed

Literally buried beneath your bardic name,

you, through poems, and praise of Christ, can utterly claim

bardic poetry as your chief vocation,

its presence declared in your very appellation.

 

J-Called

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Author's Notes/Comments: 

And to all others who wrote or write under bardic names:  Cynan, Talhaiarn, Golvan, Humilas, Carnhuanaw, Ab Ithel . . . to name only a few of the great ones.

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bardic poetry as your chief

bardic poetry as your chief occupation--nice line and wordplay

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Thank you.   And it did seem

Thank you.   And it did seem to be his chief occupation.  Although a preacher in the Calvinist Methodist Church of Wales, he was mor eknown, I think, for his poems than his preaching.  He was Archdruid for a number of years.  He presided as Archdruid over the granting of the Chair in poetry to Hedd Wynn, who had just been killed on Flanders Field.


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