I hear he has married a servant, or some person of very low birth; he has been in Ireland for some time, and I heard of his speaking at the Catholic Convention.

Miss Hitchener, of Hurstpierpoint, keeps a School there, and is well spoken of; her Father keeps a Publick House in the Neighbourhood, he was originally a Smuggler and changed his name from Yorke to Hitchener before he took the Public House.

I shall have a watch upon the daughter and discover whether there is any Connection between her and Shelley." [Sidenote: "THE SUSSEX MUSE"] There Shelley's connection with Sussex may be said to end.

Yet a poet, whether he will or no, is shaped by his early surroundings.

In some verses by Mr.C.W.Dalmon called "The Sussex Muse," I find the influence of Shelley's surroundings on his mind happily recorded:-- "When Shelley's soul was carried through the air Toward the manor house where he was born, I danced along the avenue at Denne, And praised the grace of Heaven, and the morn Which numbered with the sons of Sussex men A genius so rare! So high an honour and so dear a birth, That, though the Horsham folk may little care To laud the favour of his birthplace there, My name is bless'd for it throughout the earth.
I taught the child to love, and dream, and sing Of witch, hobgoblin, folk and flower lore; And often led him by the hand away Into St.Leonard's Forest, where of yore The hermit fought the dragon--to this day, The children, ev'ry Spring, Find lilies of the valley blowing where The fights took place.