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5th June 2015: The Faithless Heart’s Treachery
To my Creative Writing students in a seminar room in Manchester University I presented an englyn by Robert ap Gwilym Ddu as an example of the challenges and joys of poetic form:
Er cwyno lawer canwaith — a gweled
Twyll y galon ddiffaith,
Ni fyn Duw, o fewn y daith
Droi neb i dir anobaith.
Although we lament many times — and look
On the faithless heart’s treachery,
God would not want our journey
To end in a hopeless land.
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