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  • Swimming in God's love

    At last night's Songs of Praise we sang a lovely Welsh (funeral) hymn.  Alas, the English translation didn't scan (I'd failed to check) so we ended up with a trio by our three Weslsh speakers.  And it was a delight to hear Welsh voices singing as only Welsh voices can.  Here's the final verse...

      O fryniau Caersalem ceir gweled       
      Holl daith yr anialwch i gyd,       
      Pryd hyn y daw troeon yr yrfa       
      Yn felys i lanw ein bryd;       
      Cawn edrych ar stormydd ac ofnau       
      Ac angau dychrynllyd a'r bedd,       
      A ninnau'n ddihangol o'u cyrraedd  

    Yn nofio mewn cariad a hedd.

           
    From the hills of Jerusalem can be seen
       The entire journey all through the desert,       
       This time come turns of the course       
       Sweetly to fill our mind;       
       We can look at the storms and fears       
       And horrendous death and the grave,       
       And we have escaped from their reach       
       Swimming in love and peace.