Exiled from your homeland
You have farmed
This derelict land
For twelve winters
It is unlikely that you will return
To the country of your birth
And you know
That you will fade
Without protest
Into these unforgiving hills
Two Polish soldiers who were exiled after serving in the Second World War found refuge in rural Wales in the years after the conflict
They chanced upon a derelict hillside farm which had not been worked for twenty years and have tried to scrape a living from its hostile land without much success
Their plight was the subject of a BBC documentary in 1960