Transcribed from the 1900 Geo. H. Durham edition by DavidPrice,
Translated into English Verse
by
GEORGE RICHARD GOULD PUGHE,
Vicar ofMellor, near Blackburn.
Blackburn:
PRINTED BY GEO. H. DURHAM, EXCHANGEWORKS.
1900.
p. 3“Dulcesmoriens reminiscitur Argos.”
Forty years lived in Lancashire have not lessened my love forLlanfihangel yng Nghwnfa, where my father, the Rev. RichardPughe, of Mathafarn descent, B.A., and a Magistrate for Co.Montgomery [ob. Jan. 30th, 1858, in his sixty-sixth year], wasfor twenty-nine years the Rector,—where also mybrother-in-law, the Rev. Edward Evans, B.A. [ob. Nov. 3rd, 1899,aged eighty-six], was Rector thirty-nine years.
Dolwar Fechan, a little, lonely farm house in their oldParish, was the birthplace and abode of one who composed suchpathetic hymns as will last while the British language endures:her obelisk in Llanfihangel Churchyard bears an Epitaph recordingits erection, in 1864,
“In Memory
OF
ANN GRIFFITHS,
of Dolwar Fechan,
Born 1776,
Died 1805.”
while a verse from the Proverbs,xxxi, 30:—“Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain:but a woman that feareth The Lord, she shall be praised,”fitly prefaces her Biography by the late Mr. Morris Davies, ofBangor.
p.4Old Dolwar Fechan cannot now be found,—
Its fabric has been levelled with the ground.
Nevertheless, imperishable fame
Perpetuates that humble homestead’s name;
For there was born,—there dwelt, declined and died,
Ripe for the reapers at God’s Harvest Tide,
A mother,—but ten months before, a bride,—
Ann Griffiths,—whose effusions will be sung
So long as our old language lives among
The wooded wilds, the waterfalls and vales
Of “Home, Sweet Home!” Incomparable Wales!
G. R. G. PUGHE,
MellorVicarage,
Blackburn.
Christmas, 1900.
NidMeddyg, ond Meddyg Enaid.
Only The Kind Physician of the Soul
Can calm the mind, and make the sinner whole.
“He who was manifested in theflesh.” 1 Tim. III. 16.
“Dyma babell ycyfarfod,”
Thy Pavilion’sOne Foundation,
Fortress for the fugitive,
In Thy Blood we see salvation,
Jesu, through Thy Death we live.
At Thy footstool humbly bending
Only can we be forgiven,
On Thy Righteousness depending
Only have we hope of Heaven.
Prior to this earth’s creation
Man’s redemption was ordained,—
By Thy predetermination
Long lost Eden was regained.
Undeserved regeneration,
Blissful immortality,
Pardon, peace, pu