Watcyn Wyn — a remark

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“Come, you will not get another opportunity like this for three hundred years.”

Original: Dewch, chewch chi ddim cyfle fel hyn eto am dri chan mlynedd. — A playful invitation to seize an opportunity unlikely to return soon · Chairman's remark at John Penry tercentenary lecture (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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