Note 15 — MORWENSTOW[1]
Reading edition
Among some unpublished MSS. of Hawker’s is the following verse, dated 1840:—
“Thus said the pious Pelican unto her thirsty Young, ‘Drink, drink! my desert children: be beautiful and strong. What tho’ it be the lifeblood from my veins ye drain away; Ye will grow and glide in glory, and for me, O let me die.’”