Pe buasai fil/mil o fydoedd

1,(2,3),4.
(Effeithiau marwolaeth y groes - Rhan I)
Pe buasai fil o fydoedd
  Yn cael eu prynu 'nghyd,
A'r cyfryw bris, buasent
  Yn llawer iawn rhy ddrud:
'Does angel fyth, na seraph,
  Na cherub o un rhyw,
I'r filfed ran
    all ddwedyd
  Mor werthfawr gwaed fy Nuw.

Mae tân o fewn i fynwes
  Myrddiynau pur y nef,
Rhyw newydd fflam wrth feddwl
  Am werth ei angeu ef,
Yn attal eu caniadau
  Wrth synu oll yn un,
I wel'd eu Duw yn dioddef
  A marw yn natur dyn. 

O! na allwn innau'r awrhon
  Ehedeg fyny fry,
A dysgu rhyw ganiadau
  Sydd gan y nefol lu,
Fel byddai cydsain hyfryd
  Rhwng dae'r a nef yn un;
Caniadau anfeidroldeb
  Marwolaeth Duw yn ddyn.

Am angeu'r groes
    bydd canu
  I dragwyddoldeb maith;
Ond im gael teimlo'i rinwedd,
  'Rwyf bron ar ben fy nhaith;
Fy nefoedd yw ei deimlo,
  A'i deimlo'n union sydd
Yn troi pob rhyw dywyllwch
  O'm mewn yn oleu ddydd.

           - - - - -

Pe buasai mil o fydoedd
  Yn cael eu prynu ynghyd,
A'r cyfryw bris, buasent
  Yn llawer iawn rhy ddrud;
'Does angel fyth, na seraff,
  Na cherub o un rhyw,
I'r filfed ran
    all dd'wedyd
  Mor werthfawr gwaed fy Nuw.

Mi welaf yn ei fywyd
  Y ffordd i'r nefoedd fry,
Ac yn ei angau'r taliad
  A roddwyd trosof fi;
Yn ei esgyniad gwelaf
  Drigfannau pur y nef,
A'r wledd drag'wyddol berffaith,
  Ga'i yno gydag ef.

Pe unwaith y darfyddai
  Awdurdod Calfari,
Darfyddai pob cysuron
  Ar unwaith genyf fi;
O bawb yn sicr byddwn
  Y truenusaf ddyn,
Fe'm llyncai'r bedd dychrynllyd
  Fi'n fuan iddo'i hun.
William Williams 1717-91

Tonau [7676D]:
Culmstock (<1825)
Manheim (H L Hassler / J S Bach)
Meriba (<1825)
Mount Street (John Roberts 1822-77)
St Thomas's (<1825)

gwelir:
  Rhan I/II - Pwy ddyry im falm o Gilead?
  Rhan II/III - Anfeidrol fyth anfeidrol
  Rhan III/IV - Gwell ganddo na halogi
  Rhan IV/V - Mae'r fath feddyliau mawrion
  Fe gododd Haul Cyfiawnder
  Mi welaf yn ei fywyd
  Ni fuasai gennyf obaith
  O enw ardderchocaf
  Pwy ddyry im' falm o Gilead

(The effects of the death of the cross - Part 1)
If there had been thousands of worlds
  Getting redeemed together,
With the whole price, they would have been
  Very much too costly:
There is no angel ever, nor seraph,
  Nor cherub of any kind,
For the thousandth part
      to be able to be told
  How valuable the blood of my God.
  
There is a fire within the breast
  Of myriads of pure ones of heaven,
Some new flame on thinking
  About the worth of his death,
Stopping their songs
  While surprising all as one,
To see their God suffering
  And dying in the nature of man.

O that I too could now
  Fly up above,
And learn some songs
  Which the heavenly host have,
Thus there would be a delightful chorus
  Between earth and heaven as one;
Songs of the immeasurability
  Of the death of God as man.

About the death of the cross
    there will be singing
  For a vast eternity;
But for me to get to feel its virtue,
  I am almost at the end of my journey;
My heaven is to feel it,
  And to feel directly that which is
Turning every kind of darkness
  Within me into the light of day.

                - - - - -

If there were a thousand of worlds
  Getting bought altogether,
With such a price, they would be
  Very much too costly;
There is never an angel, or seraph,
  Or cherub of any kind,
For the thousandth part
    to be able to be told
  How valuable the blood of my God.

I see in his life
  The way to heaven above,
And in his death the payment
  That was given for me;
In his ascension I see
  The pure residences of heaven,
And the eternal, perfect feast,
  I may have there with him.

If once the authority
  Of Calvary should perish,
Every comfort of mine
  Wound perish at once;
Of everyone I would surely be
  The most miserable of men,
The horrible grave would swallow
  Me soon into itself.
tr. 2016,25 Richard B Gillion

The middle column is a literal translation of the Welsh. A Welsh translation is identified by the abbreviation 'cyf.' (emulation by 'efel.'), an English translation by 'tr.'

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