I so enjoyed a couple of hours at the park with my grandchildren this afternoon. It was supposed to be dull and rainy according to the forecast but instead it was warm with a bit of sun peeping through and perfect for a wellie paddle in the lake.
On the way home we spotted some daffodils which instantly took me back to my childhood and love of the poem by William Wordsworth that my mum often recited when we came upon them. I didn’t begin a recitation for the boys as I couldn’t remember past the first few lines, but oh, what a lovely memory to visit.
“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 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.”
William Wordsworth
