Beautiful poem.  Why don’t they teach this in school any more.  It’s so peaceful just reading those beautiful words.

We’ll be there – Valerie and I.

From: David Cheeseman <cheesey@aapt.net.au>
Sent: Friday, 13 August 2021 8:59 AM
To: 'Member Discussion' <members@lakesidehash.asn.au>
Subject: [Members] Lakeside Occasional Walk (LOW)

Dear all,

No doubt, you realise that the walk planned for Tuesday 17^th August has to be cancelled.

However, do not fear, I have rescheduled it for Tuesday 7^th September. I will send out a notice confirming or rescheduling this date.

Spring will be in the air, so I thought I would get you in the mood with these words from William Wordsworth.

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.