Dic Jones won the Chair at the Urdd National Eisteddfod five times in succession. In 1966 he won the National Eisteddfod Chair for his ode "Y Cynhaeaf" ("Harvest"). His work performs the social function of praising, satirising and elegising, as well as meditating on universal themes. In his own rendition of extracts from the poems "harvest" and "Spring" here, he has tried to mirror the metres of the original, including elements of cynghanedd.

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