Saturday, April 19, 2008

spring is here - Daffodils by Wordsworth


The photoshop trick
(lamenting the erasing of "me" from an old photo of the whitesand desert)

I sat there alone like a purple sand verbena
Which hangs low o'er the crystalline hills,
When all at once I saw a violent storm: a pen,
Then a brush, of whitish, grayish spills;
Over my head, beneath my knees,
Pounding me into digital obsolete.
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Daffodils
By 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.