Chi Yn Kernow / A House in Cornwall

                                                    Life of Saint Meriasek, 4293

I shall have a house in Cornwall,
cool running water I shall have through the gravel,
earth I shall have and soil,
‘but on the other hand’ I shall have and ‘but still’:
‘perhaps’ there was and ‘but’,
dark seed there was in soil,
I have sand and gravel:
I shall have a house in Cornwall.

I had a house in Cornwall,
I had the leaves of a country’s Springtime,
a word I had and a conversation,
I had wisdom and nonsense;
there was the strength of a perverse wind in nonsense,
living silence there was in conversation:
I have the tiller of a hollow ship,
I had a house in Cornwall.

I have a house in Cornwall,
bees I have and lice;
I have a gate and an altar,
the hateful I have and the dear;
the work I have and the grievance,
mine is the bitter and the grievance;
Death is on an altar:
I have a flame against a host of lice,
I have a house in Cornwall.
I shall have a house in Cornwall,
mine will be a house in Cornwall;
I shall have a cool late afternoon,
light I shall have and stones:
I have acorns and stones,
mine is cool shade:
yet shall I look for a house in the land,
I shall have a house in Cornwall.

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In kernou me ambeth chi                          Bywnanz Meryazek

My a’m bydh chi yn Kernow,
lyr klor my a’m bydh dre’n grow;
dor my a’m bydh ha gwerez,
‘lemen’ my a’m bydh ha ‘mez’;
‘martesen’ eza ha ‘mez’,
haz tewl eza yn gwerez,
yma dhymm tiwez ha grow:
my a’m bydh chi yn Kernow.

Chi my a’m beu yn Kernow,
my a’m beu del Gwenton pow;
ger my a’m beu ha kezkows,
my a’m beu furneth ha flows;
y feu nell gwynz kamm yn flows,
taw byw a veu yn kezkows:
yma dhymm lyw gorhel kow,
my a’m beu chi yn Kernow.

My a’m beus chi yn Kernow,
gwenyn my a’m beus ha low;
my a’m beus yet hag alter,
an kas my a’m beus ha’n ker;
an hwel my a’m beus ha’n hwer:
dhymm yma’n hwerow ha’n hwer,
Ankow usi war alter:
yma dhymm flamm worth lu low,
my a’m beus chi yn Kernow.

Chi my a’m bydh yn Kernow,
dhymm y fydh chi yn Kernow;
my a’m bydh androw goyeyn,
golow my a’m bydh ha meyn;
yma dhymmo mes ha meyn,
dhymm yma goskez goyeyn:
hwath y hwilav chi yn’n pow,
my a’m bydh chi yn Kernow.