Pàn deuth Chapman ha’y Homer dhe’m kensa mir

John Keats

Here is the original and a Cornish translation of the last four lines of the famous poem On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. These were later employed by Arthur Ransome to preface the first chapter of his story Swallows and Amazons.

Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes

He star'd at the Pacific – and all his men

Look'd at each other with a wild surmise –

Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

Py ’vell Cortez bold dre lagas owr-er

An Mor Cosel pàn spias orto yn fen –

Ha’n lu meur gans mir govynnek y jer –

Tewys, wàr vena uhel in Daryên.