{"id":1154,"date":"2011-08-13T19:21:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T19:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk\/?page_id=1154"},"modified":"2018-03-22T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T10:38:07","slug":"resurges-by-c-e-byles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk\/?page_id=1154","title":{"rendered":"Resurges? by C. E Byles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Written in the Hut at Morwenstow)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>O Spirit, where art thou fled<br \/>\nThro&#8217; the deeps of air and sea?<br \/>\nWilt thou not return from the dead<br \/>\nTo be one mortal hour with me?<\/p>\n<p>I gaze from thy crag-hewn seat<br \/>\nO&#8217;er the spreading, limitless main,<br \/>\nAnd the deep foam-thunders beat<br \/>\nAt their rocky bars in vain.<\/p>\n<p>The land still wars with the deep,<br \/>\nAnd the storm sweeps valley and hill:<br \/>\nBut the dead rise not yet from their sleep,<br \/>\nAnd the stormy Spirit is still.<\/p>\n<p>Will the dead rise up from the past<br \/>\nWhen the dark gates open to me?<br \/>\nShall I greet thee, O Spirit at last<br \/>\nOn the verge of that vaster sea?<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker<\/em>, edited by C. E. Byles, (p. 655).<\/p>\n<p>Charles Edward Byles (1873 &#8211; ? ) married Hawker&#8217;s second daughter, Rosalind. In addition to <em>The Life and Letters <\/em>he also edited <em>Stones Broken From the Rocks: Extracts From the Manuscript Notebooks of R. S. Hawker<\/em> and new editions of <em>Cornish Ballads &amp; Other Poems<\/em> and <em>Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall<\/em>. A journalist and poet he worked as sub-editor on <em>The Illustrated London News<\/em> and <em>The Sketch<\/em>. His published works include <em>Cornish Breakers and Other Poems<\/em> (1909) and <em>Rupert Brookes and Other Poems<\/em> (1919), as well as <em>Rambles in Bookland: an English Reading-Book for Junior Forms<\/em> and<em> Greek Lives From Plutarch<\/em>. Charles and Rosalind had three daughters, Irene Margaret Byles, Edith Marion Hawker Byles and Rosalind Morwenna Byles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in the Hut at Morwenstow) O Spirit, where art thou fled Thro&#8217; the deeps of air and sea? Wilt thou not return from the dead To be one mortal hour with me? I gaze from thy crag-hewn seat O&#8217;er the spreading, limitless main, And the deep foam-thunders beat At their rocky bars in vain. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1116,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1154\/revisions\/3856"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}