Roughtor Ford below Poldue Downs on a cold January night – the spot where the body of Charlotte Dymond was found in April 1844
[...]that you may pause and pray for lovers who come not to bed upon their wedding day, but lie upon the moorland where stands the sacred snow above the breathing river, and the salt sea-winds go.
final lines to The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond by Charles Causley
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