Notes
1] This epitaph was "on a stone near the south wall of the Church" and commemorated "the son of the Rev. Ezekiel Athanasius Rouse" (C. E. Byles, The Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker [John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1906]: 142-43).
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Original text: Rev. R. S. Hawker, The Cornish Ballads And
other Poems (Oxford and London: James Parker, 1869): 172. Facsimile Reproduction
with an intro. by Kay J. Walter and Terence Allan Hoagwood. Delmar, N.Y.:
Scholars' Facsimiles, 1994. PR 4759 H9C6 1869a Robarts Library
First publication date:
1846
Publication date note: Echoes from Old Cornwall (1846).
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2002
Recent editing: 1:2002/4/29
Composition date:
1840
Composition date note: Cornish Ballads (1908): 66.
Form: quatrains
Rhyme: abab