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Devil's Chapel
In the pews
mouths open
to out spew
the hymns
known off by hearts
in heaving chests
the rote
the rota
the cheeks
redenned and
redeemed
corrugated teeth
framed by yellowed collars
and furtive eyes
on servant girls
and recent widows
this interior world is shadow
and that which inhabits
its shade
the weight of the Bible
its brass clasp keeping
the colour pictures
of faraway places tight
until the right moment
the envy
the avarice
so many reputations at stake
in Adam's grove
where Lucifer takes over
the sêt fawr
sitting side by side
with the faithful
as the Word is heard
but no longer received
(sêt fawr-great pew)
Diolch Ceri. Possibly. He lived in a house in Rhydlewis, Ceredigion, formerly occupied by my great x 3 grandfather (or possibly the dwelling next door) but who had left a couple of decades before the arrival of the Evans'. Another of my relatives preached locally three decades before Caradoc arrived. https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-JEN-1798 and had he lived later would possibly have been a subject of Caradoc's writing!
Gwych...shades of Caradoc Evans?