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I Wandered Lonely

as a Cloud (Poem)

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● What are some of the flowers you see around you?

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ReCITATION

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high over 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 the inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

—William Wordsworth

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