"Ponderynge together yestardayes promise, and two-dayes doyng"
(Hall's Chronicle - 1548)


"Goronigl gwyr yr Ynys" (Lewis Glyn Cothi - 1450)

A Leaf in Autumn








Y ddeilen hon, neus cynired gwynt,
Gwae hi o'i thynged!
Hi hen; eleni ganed.


(9th century?)


This leaf, sere as the wind turns it
Its fate is here, its woe:
To be born and die in a year.