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Proposed Excursion Knowledge of Welsh Singular Groom Harmonious Distich Welsh Pronunciation Dafydd Ab Gwilym. IN the summer of the year 1854 myself, wife, and daughter determined upon going into Wales, to pass a few months there.
I will have to be on my best behaviour here, with a parson and a preacher in the house! Well! it's a pocket-book for you, I thought very like, being a preacher, you would like to put down a word sometimes." "Quite right, indeed," said Gwilym Morris; "and look at my old one, barely hanging together it is!"
Then presently we almost lose sight of Morfudd amidst birds, animals and trees, and we are not sorry that we do; for though Ab Gwilym is mighty in humour, great in describing the emotions of love and the beauties of the lovely, he is greatest of all in describing objects of nature; indeed in describing them he has no equal, and the writer has no hesitation in saying that in many of his cowydds in which he describes various objects of nature, by which he sends messages to Morfudd, he shows himself a far greater poet than Ovid appears in any one of his Metamorphoses.
"'Twould be easy to stand on the garden wall and throw it in through the window." Ann was busily counting the sovereigns which had rolled into all sorts of difficult corners. "Thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty!" "Every one right," said Gwilym; "how fortunate! but how I should like to tell Gryffy Lewis I forgive him, and that he has done right in returning the money."
On one occasion, Borrow showed a one-eyed beggar into his master’s private room, and installed him in an armchair “like a justice of the peace.” At another time, when invited to Mr. Simpson’s house, he electrified a learned archdeacon and the company generally by maintaining that his favourite Ab Gwilym was a better poet than Ovid, and that many of the classic writers were greatly over-valued.
When they rose from their knees and the wooden shoes had clattered out of the kitchen, Gwilym said, as he drew his chair to the table: "Ann, we must wait a little longer for our furniture. My bag of sovereigns is gone!" "Gone?" echoed everyone, and Morva, who was putting away the Bible, turned white with a deadly fear, which seemed to freeze the blood in her veins.
In the period of the princes and nobles, you can trace the rise and decline of a great literature; watch how it gathers strength and beauty from Cynddelw to Dafydd ap Gwilym, and how the strength begins to fail and the beauty to wane, from Dafydd ap Gwilym to Tudur Aled.
The old man said nothing for some time, but trudged heavily beside her. "Thou art tender and forgiving, whatever," he said at last; "but Ann, where is she? Will she ever forgive me?" "She is waiting for Gwilym," answered Morva.
That is what I have come to fetch; a son to support and comfort my old friend in his latter days. Gwilym Morris is good and kind to him, and Ann thou know'st they are married these four years?" "Yes, Jim Brown told me, and I was very glad." "But 'tis his own son he is longing for. ''Tis my boy Gethin I want to see, he says; 'he was so kind to me." "Did he say that?" "That did he." "Diwss anwl!
When the old blacksmith came to pull down the masonry to rebuild it, he found three brass kettles full of money. Old Gwilym Evans started off one fine morning to walk across the Eagle Hills to a distant town, bent upon buying some cheese. On his way, in a lonely part of the hills, he found a golden guinea, which he quickly put into his pocket.
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