Charles Causley recounts how an earlier Cornish poet, the Reverend R.S.Hawker of “And shall Trelawney die?” fame, sought to cure his parishioners of their superstitions by dressing up as a mermaid.
THE MERRYMAID
Robert Stephen Hawker,
Vicar of Morwenstow,
Vicar of Morwenstow,
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