The Original Road Poet? Traditional Cache
juxtapoz: Time for W.H Davies to take a rest after all these years!
Seriously, the cache doesn’t last long and we’re having trouble getting to the site these days.
Thanks to all who found it and apologies to the DNFers who tried but were disappointed.
Keep on caching! juxtaposed.
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A level urban area, the cache contains a log only, please bring a pen.
Magnetic micro. Please open carefully, may be a bit fragile.
Co-ordinates were erratic but hint should be of help.
Some stealth required.
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"What is this life, if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare." Leisure by W.H. Davies .
Born in Newport`s Pillgwenlly district in 1871, William Henry Davies left Britain in his early twenties to hitch and beg his way across America as a hobo.
He lost a leg while trying to jump a freight train in Ontario, Canada.
This period of his life is recorded in his acclaimed memoir,"Autobiography of a Super Tramp", recently republished.
He returned to Britain in the early 1900`s, writing and living in London where he benifited from a vogue for working class poetry,with "Leisure" being his most famous work.
At the age of 50 he married a lady 30 years his junior-Davies was never one for the niceties of Edwardian Society!
He died at his home in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire in 1940 aged 69,leaving his now considerable estate to a man he`d never met!
The statue "Stand and Stare" by Paul Bothwell Kincaid, inspired by his poem" Leisure" can be seen in Commercial Street Newport,part of the city`s art trail. Congratulations steview100 - FTF
Additional Hints
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Puvyy bhg jvgu J.U.Q. Evtug ba!
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