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| I WANDERED |
| LONELY |
| AS A CLOUD |
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| William Wordsworth |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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: |
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| 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. |
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