Daffodils
Ahh spring, clumps of daffodils are blooming in lawns in every direction. Like a song that plays in your mind, the Wordsworth poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud” has been in my head. When I did a Google search for the poem, I discovered it filmed to rap music in 2007. A human performs it in a squirrel costume….really. It is available on YouTube. For me, this poem is better the old-fashioned way…..a classic from 1804.
I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. Written by William WordsworthSpring mix
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