Ode To Joy Mystery Cache
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Final cache at the decoded coordinates is a dishpan-sized plastic container concealed by (what else!) rocks, located a short uphill jaunt from parking. Please take some of the reading material within and enjoy.
4/11/11- Thanks to Applejohn for adjusting coordinates and pointing out that one of the poems was not findable using normal Internet search tools (I had it in a book); clues have been adjusted now, so I hope the number of finds increases!
THE CACHE IS NOT LOCATED AT THE COORDINATES POSTED ABOVE.
An Ode is a poem that celebrates or remembers something –This cache is placed in remembrance of one more place that was once a great wooded hiking area but is now all but overtaken by new development. Enjoy it before it’s completely off-limits.
I dipped into my college past as an English poetry minor for these clues. You will have to delve into poetry to decode the coordinates. No geology or minerals involved in this one, except for passing references! My first puzzle-cache - experienced cachers pease let me know if the difficulty rating needs adjustment.
The cache is located at coordinates:
N 39o AB.CDE’
W119o VW.XYZ’
Where:
A = First number in Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.”
B = First letter of the first line of Yeats poem “A Prayer for my Daughter.”
C = Number of letters in the word describing Chronos in Marianne Moore’s “Four Quartz Crystal Clocks.”
D = Number of letters in the last name of the poet who wanted the poem "Crossing the Bar" to conclude any collection of his poems.
E = Age of the child mentioned in Wordsworth’s “Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.”
V= Number of stanzas in Keats “Ode on a Grecian urn.”
W = Third word in the sixth line of Richard Wilbur’s “Digging For China.”
X = Start of the fourth word of W. B. Yeats’ poem “When you are old.”
Y = Number mentioned in the first line of W.H. Auden’s “In Praise of Limestone.”
Z = Number of letters in the name of the animal described in Billy Collins’ poem “Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House” PLUS 5.
Have fun and please read some of the poems while searching for the digits you need to find the cache.
Check-sum:
A+B+C+D+E=24
V+W+X+Y+Z=14
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Haangheny ebpx cvyr.