Death & Dying
Dafydd ab Gwilym
Translated by George Borrow (Welsh Poems and Ballads, 1915) · From Welsh Poems and Ballads (1915)
Death & Dying
To Heaven's high peace let him depart,
And with him go the minstrel art.
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Codex Note
From "Wild Wales". Printed as "From Iolo Goch (?)", the attribution being queried in the source.
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Goch, Iolo. “Dafydd ab Gwilym.” Translated by George Borrow. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/iolo-goch/5/.
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Goch, Iolo. “Dafydd ab Gwilym.” Translated by George Borrow. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/iolo-goch/5/.
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