A Poem for St David’s Day
It’s St David’s Day today, so I wish you all a great big
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
It has become a bit of a St David’s Day tradition on this this blog to post a piece of verse by the great Welsh poet R.S. Thomas. An Anglican clergyman, Thomas was vicar at St Hywyn’s Church (which was built 1137) in Aberdaron at the western tip of the Llŷn Peninsula. This one, called Pact, carries a message for the sad times we’re living through.
This is my child;
that is yours. Let
peace be between them
when they grow up.
They are far off
now; let it not
be through war they are brought
near. Their languages
are different. Let them both
learn it is peace
in the hand is the translation
of peace in the mind.
by R.S. Thomas (1913-2000)
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