Day 4 - Byron on a bike?

For Carl & Tom: Byron on a bike (c. 2009)


Today April's showers and sunshine
fell in equal measure,
on all amidst the countryside
be purpose toil or leisure.


So thought Ron as he cast an eye
having cast in search of Pike,
and there upon horizon's hill
a man upon a bike.


And I astride that Giant sat
protection luminous yellow,
my eye, cast aforeward then,
set upon that fishing fellow.


Came I passed furrowed fields
by hedge and ditch and dyke,
passed I aside the river bank
'by Ron' upon a bike!



Day 4 was the first of the stages that run pretty much directly North, so this took me (with a few aches) from Monmouth/S. Wales to Wem/Shropshire.