While in Aberystwyth I noticed a new mural going up on the Bookshop by the Sea. Based on Hokusai, it is now finished. The words are from a poem called My Friend and can be translated
Oh! My dear sister, you to me
As the moon to the sea, constantly,
Following you restlessly are
My heart’s pure affections
It is the work of Cranogwen (Sarah Jane Rees 1839–1916). She was the first woman to win in the National Eisteddfod in 1865. More here.
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