Wordworth’s words: Hope you enjoy this timeless trip back in time. Happy Spring! Bette A. Stevens
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 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…
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Bette A. Stevens, Maine Author 
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My favourite poem as a small boy in England.
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Nice!
I didn’t like poetry way back when I was in high school,
because we had to memorize and recite it in front of the class.
STRESS.
Now that I can just read and enjoy it,
I love poetry.
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