Ar yezh a garan

THE LANGUAGE I LOVE

 

Oh how sweet and melodious

Is the language of mute creatures

More soothing to my soul

Than the rude language of people

 

How tranquilly, how tenderly

The trees talk to me

The gurgling at the water's edge

The heath on the mountains

 

The broom of the warrens

Waving in the wind

The golden sea of the moors

 

That tell me legends

That sing me verses

Arthur. Isolde. Merlin.^l

 

March 1968.

 

¹Famous personnages from Celtic legends.