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All later investigations have failed effectually to dissipate the mystery of the 'Sangraal. So too, after all that has been written upon it, the true etymology of 'mosaic' remains a question still. And not in Church matters only, but everywhere, we meet with the same oblivion resting on the origin of words.
He died in 1875, having been received into the Romish Church a few hours before his death; and the remains were laid in Plymouth Cemetery. On his tombstone is a line from his own beautiful poem, "The Quest of the Sangraal" "I would not be forgotten in this land." There is now an elaborate memorial window in Morwenstow Church, unveiled in 1904.
Here let them say, by proud Dundagel's walls 'They brought the Sangraal back at his command, They touched these rugged rocks with hues of God, So shall my name have worship, and my land." And after the king had spoken: "That night Dundagel shuddered into storm The deep foundations shook beneath the sea." And we have the grand final picture:
He knew how weak it all was compared with his own conceptions; he had seen an enchanted city, awful, glorious, with flame smitten about its battlements, like the cities of the Sangraal, and he had molded his copy in such poor clay as came to his hand; yet, in spite of the gulf that yawned between the idea and the work, he knew as he read that the thing accomplished was very far from a failure.
On the furze and bracken-clad slope above the cliffs, not far distant, is the hut that Hawker himself constructed, building it of wreckage; this was the sanctuary to which he loved to retreat for contemplation and literary work. It was here that he wrote his Sangraal poem, and the strong picture of its close might apply to this scene as forcibly as it does to its original.
But the school of courtoisie prevailed; the most celebrated of the troubadours are mundane, not to say profane; Walther von der Vogelweide, with his bitter attacks upon the Papacy, is more typical of his class than Wolfram with his allegory of Parsifal and the Sangraal.
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