No Lawn Bowling!!!
No Croquet!!!
So – to celebrate National Poetry Day (March 21) and Spring
Your Wandering Webmaster Went Walking
On nearby Beacon Hill
Treading very carefully
Among a million daffodils
But for real poetry, here’s William Wordsworth’s ode to daffodils
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 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 when my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
Thanks for this, Joanne. Whenever I see those daffodils, the poem comes to mind, but only two of the lines stuck in my head from memorization many decades ago. Thanks for the whole poem.
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