Sight of daffodils is sheer poetry
Published:
7:00 AM March 22, 2014
Updated:
6:46 PM November 7, 2020
I was driving up Station Road on Sunday, when all at once I came across a glorious, golden display of daffodils, shimmering in the sunlight.
The sight reminded me of Wordsworth’s famous poem, which starts :-
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
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A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
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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.
Ian Davies
Magnolia Cottage
Sidmouth
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