William Henry Davies

A wandering man he worked and tramped his way Through Canada and through the U.S.A. And he oft times slept under the open sky But there was more to him than met the eye. He damaged his foot whilst jumping off a train And amputation caused him years of pain And how he suffered the poor chap god knows But like a man he took life's painful blows. He won world acclaim as a lyric poet And more than seven hundred poems he wrote His complete poems numbered 749 And to his credit not one slipshod line. So many great poems from his majic hand He wrote the rhymes a child could understand His lyrics born of true simplicity Which is the hall mark of good poetry. The life story read like strange ficticious tales Of the legendary super tramp of Wales From obscurity he rose to literary fame And 'William Henry Davies' was his name.