Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FROM PENLAN HILL, CARMARTHEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES


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FROM PENLAN HILL, CARMARTHEN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the town the valley lies
Last Line: Limpid stream and laughing water.
Subject(s): Carmarthen, Wales; Mountains; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen


I

BEYOND the town the valley lies,
Proud and rich in the sun's eyes,
Banked with green and gay with gold,
Brown with new-turned, upland mould:
And down her sky-ways, one by one,
Great gleaming cloud-ships billowing on.

II

White walls and trees and spires,
And eventide and sunset fires,
And the long road that never tires—
Winding, winding to the hills
Where twilight sleeps and the daffodils
Nod all night to crooning rills.

III

In purple shadows, distant, dim,
The glowing Van's enchanted rim
Clad in mist and silver cloud—
Where only silence speaks aloud,
And olden mountains meet the skies
To whisper ancient mysteries—
A faery kingdom where no sound
Breaks on the music under ground.

IV

Perhaps old Merlin slumbers still
Beneath the turf on Merlin's Hill,
And that at every dawn of spring
Before the valley's burgeoning
He wakes and stirs—and calling clear
Beckons a greater wizard here.

V

No wonder Towy, loth to go,
Twists and turns at every throw—
Towy, the blue hills' daughter—
Limpid stream and laughing water.




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