I had thought Causley was a fairly accessible and "easy" poet, knowing till now only 'Timothy Winters' and 'The Ballad of the Bread Man'. He actually isn't; many of his poems are strange, with half-understood meanings that will only be revealed over a number of readings perhaps. Incredibly rich, vivid verse, full of angels, devils, fools, saints, hanged men, sailors, children....
Art thou of Cornish crew? Well, maybe. If you go far enough back in my family tree, there may be a smidgen of Cornish; by the 18thC they are living in Devon, but very close to the border, and they have a Cornish surname.