SY9776 : Memorial at WinspitThe epitaph, "He loved birds and green places and the wind on the heath & saw the brightness of the skirts of God" is derived from that of the Anglo-Argentine naturalist William Henry (Guillermo Enrique) Hudson (1841-1922), who in turn, in his book "Birds and Man", referred to the phrase "The brightness of the skirts of God" as having come from the work of "an American poet, now dead". This is believed to be the poem "Life,"by the New England "fireside" poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878).