View into Blaen Rhymni
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View into Blaen Rhymni
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell Taken: 16 Sep 2012
I had trekked up into Blaen Rhymni in honour of Idris Davies and his poem 'The Curlews of Blaen Rhymni', written in 1945: 'The curlews of Blaen Rhymni are calling in the night And all the hills are magical because the moon is bright, And I walk alone, and listen, along the mountain way To curlew calling curlew in hollows far away'. And the crying of the curlew makes more sad and strange and fair The moon above the moorland and the clear midnight air, And the mountain breeze is laden with some echoes that must be The echoes of a music beyond humanity. And curlew calls to curlew, and I remember as I go The merrier sounds and echoes out of seasons long ago, When the nights were full of laughter and all the days were bright And the heart too young to listen to the curlew in the night.' No curlews heard by me today I'm afraid.
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51.781416
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-3.296465