W. H. Davies led an action-packed life and one that made his family very unhappy as a young man. He got into trouble with the police, lost a leg when he was trying to jump onto a moving train without buying a ticket and lived as a homeless person all over Britain. And all the time he wrote poetry. Read his story (1,425 words).
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