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Rh If Teils should return, if happiness were restored to the Cymri, Dewi and Dyfrig should serve his Mass; then a great marvel would be made visible. O blessed and miraculous work! then should my bliss be as the joy of angels. I had rather behold this offering than kiss the twin lips of dark Gwenllian. Dear my land of Gwent: O quam dilecta tabernacula. Thy rivers are like precious golden streams of Paradise, thy hills are as the Mount Syon. Better a grave on Twyn Barlwm than a throne in the palace of the Saxons at Caer-Ludd. 1em