Daffodils

Wordsworth recalls walking beside a lake in his beloved Cumbria, and seeing a long line of daffodils nodding cheerfully in the wind. The sight pleased him at the time, but he did not realise then how often it would come back to his mind’s eye, when he was relaxing alone, to fill him again with the same delight.

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