“Pleasant to bring back the divisions of a parish;
Also pleasant to us the time of paradise.
Pleasant, the moon, a luminary in the heavens;
Also pleasant where there is a good rememberer.”

—  Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Pleasant Things of Taliesin

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Welsh bard 534–599

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