'Cargoes' - Cardiff Bay - Wales.
N 51° 27.788 W 003° 09.848
30U E 488597 N 5701341
John Masefield's poem 'Cargoes' is brought to life at Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay, in a narrative trail of twenty-two galvanised steel sculptures, and the poem inscribed on a heavy steel plaque.
Waymark Code: WMEMZX
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/16/2012
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The twenty-two galvanised steel sculptures, Including a monkey, an elephant head and firewood and coal, can all be found within 150 feet of the Steel plaque, they juxtapose the modern architecture of Mermaid Quay while paying tribute to the rich history of the Bay.
"John Masefield's ashes are buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London, England. (Due to lack of space, he was the last poet to be interred here.)
In 1902 he published Salt-Water Ballads which contained his popular poem Sea Fever (I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and sky,/All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by). His other famous nautical poem Cargoes appeared in his 1910 collection Ballads and Poems":- (
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