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Charles Causley

Cornish poet. Eden Rock is a real place near his childhood home.

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The quotes

2 quotes by or about Charles Causley, in the order they happen.

They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock

Causley · Eden Rock · parents and children · memory · loss

His dead parents at a picnic, young again. He is old. They wait across a stream.

I had not thought that it would be like this

Causley · Eden Rock · loss · memory

The last line, on its own. Death, or memory, is not what he expected.

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