Daffodils

My very first post on this blog was of our first snow in December. It is now officially spring and a beautiful spring day indeed on Orcas Island. I watched a wonderful independent British film last night called "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont" (highly recommended), in which the characters where quoting William Wordsworth. As I walked up to the Moran Mansion at Rosario Resort this morning, the setting was a vortex of spring, daffodils and William Wordsworth!

Daffodils
by William Wordsworth

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 leaves in glee;
A oet could not be but 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.


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