Independence for Wales?

Question

Who is Cymru’s enemy?
Not Germany, nor Spain,
Nor Russia, Serbia, Iraq -
They forged for her no chain,
Nor quenched her hearths,
Nor razed her homes,
Nor laid her altars low,
Nor sent her sons to tramp the hills amid the winter snow!

Who spiked the head of Cymru’s Prince
One drear December dawn?
While round it howled in fury
The devil's hungry spawn?
And mocked it with an ivy crown
On London’s Tower Gate
And butchered helpless Cymric babes,
The lust for blood to sate?

Who spread from Gwent to Ynys Môn,
The glare of midnight fires?
And scourged the land in rabid wrath
And tortured aged sires.
Who scourged our land throughout the years
Spread torture far and wide,
Till Cymru shrieked in woe and tears,
And hell seemed fair beside?

Who plied the Welsh-Not and the sword
The gibbet and the rack?
O God! that we should ever fail
To pay the bastards back!

Who ridiculed the noble Nine
Who fought to save our name
Amidst the shame of ’69,
And played its evil game?
Who shattered many a Cymric home
With dreaded midnight call,
And broke the loyal patriot hearts
Of those who’d give their all?

Who caused the Abergele Two
To fight at dawn of day,
And strike a blow for liberty
And all who died as they?
Who drowned Tryweryn’s ancient homes
With avaricious lust
Who smothered Cymru’s innocents
Of Aberfan with dust?

Not Germany, Afghanistan,
Russia, Iraq nor Spain
They did not strip this land of ours,
Or forge her shameful chain;
But England of the cunning words –
A crafty, treacherous foe –
'Twas England scourged our motherland,
'Twas England laid her low!

Rise up, Rise up Oh Cymric dead!
And rouse her living men;
The chance is come to us at last
To win our own again;
To sweep the English enemy
From mountain, vale, and bay,
And in your name, oh splendid dead!
Our sacred debt to pay

Answer 1

well dai bach, this sounds more like you want to declare war on those english b*st*rds, rather than get independence from them.

i think wales ought to join up with the neglected parts of england, we're not all in the south -east you know.

it's more of a class thing than an ethnicity thing.

the rich screwed the english working classes too, the mines and factories in england were run as benevolently here as in cymru. :)

(i'm from merthyr originally, btw)

i've never heard of the abergele two, who are they?

Answer 2

llewellyn ap gruffydd was hardly a king of wales: his holdings and his dynastic title were smaller and less important than (say) rhys ap gruffydd's.

henry v was a welsh born king of wales (the fight against owain glyndwr was essentially a civil war) and of course henry vii claimed the throne of britain by virtue of the claim of king arthur through the tudor line (the tudors were an anglesey family).

and if you read over the transcript of the aberfan hearings you will discover that the teams that tipped the waste on tip #7 were aware that a slippage was likely. they thought the slippage would not reach the school (and they were worried that if they turned whistleblowers the pit might be closed and the town abandoned).

overall your poem is racist nonsense.

as well as being badly written.

Answer 3

Interesting plea for Wales independence in welsh folklore. I wonder if the dream will be actualized. those countries cited as no enemies in the first stanza certainly have the least to do with Wales. I wonder why they are even cited!

Answer 4

It's rousing, I'll give you that. I just recently heard about Wales seeking independence in this current time.