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-Welcome to Cardigan. Welcome

-to Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol.

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-# Soli Deo gloria

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-# Soli Deo gloria

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-# Soli Deo gloria #

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-Tonight we join a cymanfa

-in Capel Mair chapel, Cardigan.

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-Margaret Daniel is the conductor and

-Meirion Wynne Jones is the organist.

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-Our first hymn is Fy Nuw, Fy Nhad,

-Fy Iesu, Boed Clod I'th Enw Byth.

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-The next hymn tune

-is called Beethoven.

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-The words of the hymn

-are Lewis Edwards' translation...

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-..of William Cowper's work.

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-Cowper was an

-eighteenth century English poet.

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-He was a poet

-who wrote both poems and hymns.

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-He was a friend to John Newton.

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-As the hymn tune's name suggests...

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-..the melody is the work

-of the composer Beethoven.

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-It is sometimes called Ludwig...

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-..Beethoven's Christian name.

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-Groeswen is one

-of J Ambrose Lloyd's hymn tunes.

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-This was the winning hymn tune...

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-..at the Groeswen Eisteddfod,

-Caerphilly, in 1845.

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-It was the first prize

-Ambrose Lloyd won for composing.

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-The words, once again,

-come from William Williams.

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-They were published in 1766.

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-Robert Jenkins and Gwyn Morris are

-two local singers who sing duets.

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-Today, they will sing the words

-from the Book of Isaiah...

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-.."Say, watchman,

-what of the night?"

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-# Say, watchman, what of the night?

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-# Do the dews of the morning fall?

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-# Have the orient skies

-a border of light

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-# Like the fringe of a fun'ral pall?

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-# The night is fast waning on high

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-# And soon shall the darkness flee

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-# And the morn shall spread

-o'er the blushing sky

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-# And bright shall its glories be

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-# The night is fast waning on high

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-# And soon shall the darkness flee

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-# And the morn shall spread

-o'er the blushing sky

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-# And bright shall its glories be

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-# But, watchman, what of the night

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-# When sorrow and pain are mine

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-# And the pleasures of life,

-so sweet and bright

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-# No longer around me shine?

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-# That night of sorrow thy soul

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-# May surely prepare to meet

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-# But away shall the clouds

-of thy heaviness roll

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-# And the morning of joy be sweet

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-# That night of sorrow thy soul

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-# May surely prepare to meet

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-# But away shall the clouds

-of thy heaviness roll

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-# And the morning of joy be sweet

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-# But, watchman, what of the night

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-# When the arrow of death is sped

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-# And the grave,

-which no glimm'ring star can light

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-# Which no glimm'ring star can light

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-# Shall be my sleeping bed?

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-# Shall be my sleeping bed?

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-# That night is near

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-# And the cheerless tomb

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-# Shall keep thy body in store

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-# Till the morn of eternity

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-# Rise on the gloom

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-# And night shall be no more

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-# And night shall be no more

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-# Till the morn of eternity

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-# Rise on the gloom

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-# And night shall be no more

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-# And night shall be no more

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-# Till the morn of eternity

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-# Rise on the gloom

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-# And night shall be no more

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-# And night shall be no more

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-# Till the morn of eternity

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-# Rise on the gloom

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-# And night shall be no more

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-# Shall be no more

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-# Shall be no more #

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-Wilton Square is the next hymn.

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-This is of particular significance

-to the women present.

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-The hymn tune

-was written by Megan Watts Hughes.

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-The name of the hymn tune refers to

-the chapel in Islington, London...

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-..where Megan was a member.

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-She was a singer from Dowlais.

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-She studied at the

-Royal Academy of Music in London.

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-The words, by Thomas William,

-were first published in 1814.

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-We're familiar with the words...

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-..since they are the same words

-as Gweddi'r Pechadur...

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-..a wonderful composition by

-another woman, Morfudd Llwyn Owen.

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-We end the programme

-with the hymn tune Aberystwyth.

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-Joseph Parry is the composer.

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-The words are by Charles Wesley,

-translated into Welsh.

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-Iesu Cyfaill F'enaid I has received

-international recognition.

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-Thank you for your company.

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-From us all, goodbye.

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-S4C Subtitles by Adnod Cyf.

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