Calon Lan

Welsh Hymn

Jul 10, 2022

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What’s the best hymn about the heart? I don’t know, but my vote goes to the Welsh hymn Calon Lan, meaning The Clean Heart. Its refrain, if I translate it into English prose, means, “A clean heart is full of riches, and is fairer than the lovely lily; only the clean heart can sing, sing every day and every night.”

This magnificent performance of Calon …

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