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Updated 26th July 2011
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David Williams (Coal Owner and Poet)
Below is a poem written by David Williams who won a Local Eisteddfod in 1853 the poem is called the Gardd Aberdâr. Due to poem originally in Welsh, this is only an idea what is means in English, Gwylim in the poem is his son Gwilym Williams whose statue is outside the law courts in Cardiff "Judge Gwilym William”.
I adore Aberdare Garden
Its fruit fluent feed
Full within and summer hedges
Purely suited, from sweetners
A long garden, reaching here-the-high
And the eager, great gentlemen
Their smiles extend
Very wide, and so o so happy
Aberdare, and healed kind words
Ancient tales
Wholesome and true of all fiction
Words within writings
A poet shead gardner-for-Gwilym
As you see, a champion
Yes a true impressionist
Man of song, that him
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Poems on Glamorgan
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The charms of Glamorgan have not wanted keen appreciation. An early triad asserts of it:-
"The Bard loves this beautiful country, It’s wines, its wives, and its white houses."
Its wines are, alas! no more; not even the patriotic
efforts of Lord Bute, in his vineyard at Castell Coch,
have as yet been able to raise a murmur from the local
temperance societies; but the white cottages still
glisten, nestled in the recesses of the hills; and if its
wives no longer enjoy a special pre-eminence in Wales
it is only because the fair sex of other counties, emulous
of the distinction, have attained to the same merits.
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Verses by Dean Conybeare "Llandaff Cathedral" in which sentiments of this Triad are embodied, seem worthy of preservation here.
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"Morganwg ! thy vales are fair,
Proud thy mountains rise in air;
And frequent, through the varied scene
Thy white-walled mansions glare between:
May the radiant lamp of day
Ever shed its choicest ray
On those walls of glittering white;
Morganwg ! the Bards' delight".
"Morganwg! those white walls hold
A matchless race in warfare bold;
In peace the pink of courtesy.
In love are none so fond and free.
May, etc.
"Morganwg ! those white walls know
All of bliss is given below,
For there in honour dwells the bride,
Her lover's joy, her husband's pride.
May, etc."
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