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What kind of life?
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Who wrote the poem used on the Center Parcs advert, 'What kind of life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?', or something like that.
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Taken from Leisure by William Henry Davies 1871-1940, the poem reads;
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see in broad daylight
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can,
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this, if full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
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