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In the bare midst of Anglesey they show / Two springs which close by one another play, / And, "Thirteen hundred years agone," they say, / "Two saints met often where those waters flow.
"One came from Penmon westward, and a glow / Whiten'd his face from the sun's fronting ray.
Eastward the other, from the dying day; / And he with unsunn'd face did always go."
Seiriol the Bright, Kybi the Dark, men said.
The Seër from the East was then in light, / The Seër from the West was then in shade.
Ah! now 'tis changed. In conquering sunshine bright / The man of the bold West now comes array'd; / He of the mystic East is touch'd with night.