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Dic Jones and Gillian Clarke

Thursday December 13 2007 2.00pm. Free Entry.
St Fagans National History Museum

Gillian Clarke and Dic Jones will be discussing their work, which is on display at the Museum.

Revival

‘The next revival will be a singing revival.’ Joseph Parry

It was boots and hallelujahs on the roads that day.
By dawn the place was full and still they came
Under autumn skies, down steep and stony ways.
To hear a young man speak. In each a flame
Flickered in the reliquary of the heart,
Somewhere between faithlessness and hope.
We see them, stilled by the camera’s art,
A multitude frozen on a mountain slope,
The collier from the south driven by desire
To preach. In our dangerous century
Words can set a hungry crowd on fire,
Fists raised against the hurts of history.
What grace then, on the hill, touched those listening
And set a thousand voices singing?

Gillian Clarke

Cred

Pan gododd haul ar fore bach y byd,
Cyn geni sant na phroffwyd, pwy a ddwêd
Gan bwy, ac i ba ddiben, a pha bryd
Y dodwyd yn ein henaid hedyn Cred?
Y grym anorthrech a roes faen ar faen
Mewn pyramid, pagoda, llan a mosg,
A thaenu chwedl a chân a chelf ar daen
I dorri rhywfaint ar ein syched llosg.

O ble y daeth ellyllon yr Un Drwg
Ac ofergoelion pitw ofnau’r cnawd
I gynnig ein hymwared rhag eu gwg
Neu geisio prynu, weithiau, wenau ffawd
A’n rhoi’n y dafol rhwng y Nef â’r Fall
I ryw bendilio rhwng y nail a’r llall?

Dic Jones