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The Foundation, over the years, receives enquiries as to whether Caru ever wrote poetry, or why none of his poetry was ever published. The answer to the former is yes he did, and to the latter no he didn’t. A scouring of his notes, letters and other documents revealed scanty examples of such work, and what there was reveals why his poetry is largely unknown. We include some here, not to applaud his efforts in this field, but to illustrate how his low output has, for wont of a better phrase, lacked practice.
Caru was somewhat of a royalist. In 1911, at the instigation of Prime Minister David Lloyd-George, Prince Edward, eldest son of King George V, was invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony held at Caernarvon Castle. Caru, despite disappointment at not receiving an invitation, penned some lines and sent them to Lloyd-George, claiming to the son of an old friend of the politician. Caru fully expected the lines to be read out. In those days without radio or television, the only news of such events came from the newspapers. Despite no mention of the poem being read Caru always believed his lines were included at the ceremony. Here is the poetry he submitted.
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