Robert Williams (R. ab Gwilym Ddu)
ROBERT WILLIAMS (R. ab Gwilym Ddu)
was born in the parish of Llanystundwy, Caernarvonshire,
in the year 1767. He spent his life on his
own farm, removed far from the world, in the
company of Arvon's mountains. His days seem
to have passed by evenly till the death of his
only daughter, the child of his old age, in her
seventeenth year. His heart never recovered from
the sorrow; and the elegy he wrote on her death
is an expression of most vivid grief. He and
another famous bard--Dewi Wyn o Eifion--were
Baptists; and by their efforts a chapel was built,
which still goes by the name of 'The Bards'
Chapel.' He died June 11, 1850. The original
of the following hymn has woven itself around
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some of the tenderest recollections of Welsh communion services:
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