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RANDOM CACHE: “The Taste of Sad” (R. P. T. Coffin) Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/11/2022
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


DO NOT GO TO THE GIVEN COORDINATES!

SOLVE THE PUZZLE BELOW.

TO RECEIVE THE COORDINATES TO THE ACTUAL LOCATION OF THE CACHE,

 ENTER IN CERTITUDE YOUR SOLUTION TO THE PUZZLE:

A NOT SO WELL HIDDEN QUOTATION AND A SLIGHTLY-MORE-DIFFICULT-TO-LOCATE KEYWORD.

 

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

You think I don’t know you’ve been living

under my porch.

You long for your real place to be readied

before winter comes.  You need

your name,

your collar and tag.  You need

the right to warn off intruders,

to consider my house your own

and me your person

and yourself

my own dog.

And the tenderness, light as water and as flour.

And the word scarcely begun on the lips.

This was my destiny and in it was the voyage of my longing,

and in it my longing fell, in you everything sank!

Oh pit of debris, everything fell into you,

what sorrow did you not express, in what sorrow are you not drowned!

Over the greatness of such space

Steps must be gentle.

It is all hung by an invisible white hair.

It trembles as birch limbs webbing the air.

And I ask myself:

“Are your fingers long enough to play

Old keys that are but echoes:

Is the silence strong enough

To carry back the music to its source

And back to you again

As though to her?”

Have you heard

the laughter

that comes, now and again,

out of my startled mouth?

How I linger

to admire, admire, admire

the things of this world

that are kind, and maybe

also troubled—

roses in the wind,

the sea geese on the steep waves,

a love

to which there is no reply?

Do I dare

Disturb the universe?

In a minute there is time

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

For I have known them all already, known them all:

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;

I know the voices dying with a dying fall

Beneath the music from a farther room,

          So how should I presume?

In the night where we first have being, before we rise on the light,

We are not brothers, my darling, we fight and we do not spare.

And in the original dark the roots cannot keep, cannot know

Any communion whatever, but they bind themselves on to the dark,

And drawing the darkness together, crush from it a twilight, a slow

Burning that breaks at last into leaves and a flower’s bright spark.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

There is no sophistry in my body:

My manners are tearing off heads—

The allotment of death.

For the one path of my flight is direct

Through the bones of the living.

No arguments assert my right:

The sun is behind me.

Nothing has changed since I began.

My eye has permitted no change.

I am going to keep things like this.

For all the history of grief

An empty doorway and a maple leaf.

For love

The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea—

 


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)