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370 THE CORNWALL COAST shipwreck and death that often distracted him. He died in 1875, having been received into the Romish Church a few hours before his death ; and the remains were laid in Plymouth Cemetery. On his tombstone is a line from his own beautiful ■ poem, " The Quest of the Sangraal " — "I would not be forgotten in this land." There is now an elaborate memorial window in Morwenstow Church, unveiled in 1904. The poet has not been forgotten in this land, nor is he likely to be. He has impressed himself so vividly on the district that was long his home, that we may now as justly speak of the Hawker country as we do of the Scott or the Wordsworth country. The work was accomplished even more by the man's personality than by his writings. If only these writings had been preserved he would not pass to posterity quite as fully as he merited ; only a portion of the man would survive. But there was the tradition of the man himself, assisted by some inadequate memoirs ; and now we have one of the most charming biographies of • recent times to bring him before us. He was not only poet and essayist ; he was cleric and mystic, preacher, prophet, symbolist, philanthropist — some may add reactionary. His life was permeated with Catholic doctrine and colour. When he passed, in his closing hours, to a sister communion, the step was a natural and easy one, however unnecessary some of us may think it to have been. He loved the Church of England devotedly and unfailingly ; but he always looked upon her as the Old Church, rather than as a reformed body ; and to his un- questioning mind a few extra dogmas would never