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"'1 f ''(1  "L- So'd ?f W.'?s- I n *? f I FINE fJORSF/DD ADDRBSS BY MR. LLiv-ELYN WILLTAMS, Tho frafr'rs of ihci GorseJd proceedings at Corveon "Eisteddfod on Thursday was all umpiring address by Mr. Llewelyn Williams, X.O. Speaking from the logan cWmo be pointed out llift they stood on ■tfie soot immortalised by Owen Glyndv, r and Owain Gwynedd, Hie greatest heroes of CJymru fa. But what had Owen CJlyndwr done for Wales ? Ho was a dreamer, a courtier, ar gallant warrior, hut h" was a failure judged by the standard (tf his day. He ttensfoTnod peaceful Wides into a warlike nation. If thvy road the 0ywyddan of Daíydd Gwilym, and he (Mr Williams) liao no hesitation in saving that they were the works or Datydcl ?h Gwilym and not those of lolo Margin wg—-and if they road the works of lolo Goeh the bard of Owen Glyndwr, they would see a splen- did picture of peaceful Wfdes, a land flowing with miH: and hemey. \et Glyn- <frrr rushed into w,-x with the English and fiJaght for tea yearvs. His rebellion failed with the result that for many years after Wales grofriod under the heel of op- pression He had dreamt of a; ^Velsh Uni- vwsity which took n,udy GOO years to materialise of Welsh Homo Rule which tfie next generation might; probably see, anil of a free WeUh Omurh which they diti not even yet püB.,e. He was a failura pcoplo f,;),id. y(t his name was bar, rn: red still. Why ? He had taught Wales that filifl was cation with a rj* ■< ial message to the world. In spite of tyranny and <.T>pn .-doti he taught Wales t4 my 4lJ am the master ef iiiy fate, I am the captain of my f-.oul." (cheers') Twm n'r Nam at Garv/en Eisteddfod centuries afterwards repealed that lesson stttd they had learnt efiat success and t^ea!'h wrv-n not the only thing,s to live fir. Money could not buy the .sural and Vales hnd found her ismd. She was in- dependent and free and Uymru Fydd wflOnld be stronger and better than Cymru Ftte (applause).

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