Sir,

Re: Jane Colley's letter regarding the Welsh National Anthem in last Friday's edition of the Observer.

I enclose a copy of an English version that I have had for years and have passed it on to many English speaking Welsh family and friends. To try to get them to sing it in Welsh, I've also made out a phonetic version.

The English version that I have enclosed is slightly different to the one from Jane Colley. Here it is:

The Old Land of my Fathers is dear unto me.

Old land of the poets, the land of the free

Her patriots and heroes, her warriors so brave,

For freedom, their life's blood they gave.

Wales, Wales.

True am I to my Wales

While seas surround

This land so proud

O may the old language endure.

Terry Griffiths,

Llandyssul.

Meanwhile, Barbara Stredder, of Marsh Road, Tenby, has also written to us and adds that, as a non Welsh speaker, the version submitted by Jane Colley is the one that she sings, with the missing line being... 'Till death be past'.