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“The poets of the coal pits have been writing the deepest poetry of their hearts upon these stones in the depths below.”

Original: Y mae beirdd y pyllau glô wedi bod yn ysgrifennu barddoniaeth ddyfnaf eu calonnau ar y meini hyn yn y gwaelodion obry. — Honouring miners whose imaginative lives flourished beneath the ground · Address, National Eisteddfod Merthyr proclamation, 1900 (Welsh)

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Watcyn Wyn

7 March 1844–19 November 1905

In the rolling hills of Carmarthenshire, where the coal dust mingles with morning mist and the Welsh language flows like the streams that carve the valleys, a remarkable story unfolded in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is the story of Watkin Hezekiah Williams, better known by his bardic name Watcyn Wyn…

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