Watcyn Wyn — a remark

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“Pure rejoicing is pure health. Let us never destroy it.”

Original: Mae gorfoledd pur yn iechyd pur! Peidiwn a'i ladd er dim! — Celebrating wholehearted joy as something healthy and worth protecting · Sermon, Sul y Blodau, 31 March 1903 (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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