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Snowbirds and Daffodils

Monday, March 28th, 2011

March 28
This snowbird has flown to Washington after two sunny, warm months in Florida. At this moment I am looking at flowering magnolias in Lincoln Park and snow! How can this be? I thought I had avoided such winter nonsense. Spring is theoretically here…
In this turbulent birth of a new season, I think of daffodils and Wordsworth.

Daffodils in the lane across from Dove Cottage where Wordsworth wrote his poem.

I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
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 with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

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