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Answer» 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.
by William Wordsworth
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