"Daffodils" or "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth (Memorization Song)

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I put William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" to music to help people more easily memorize it. This poem is also known as "Daffodils".

I wrote and recorded the music. I also drew the background picture.

Poem Text:

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 be but 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud

"The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils...around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District [UK]
Written some time between 1804 and 1807... it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes, and a revised version was published in 1815."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud

The background picture is based on The illustration is based on John Parkers painting "Ullswater From Above Pattersdale" from his book
"The English Lakes: Selected views from a sketchbook" in 1825.

The original painting was made near the area Wordsworth saw his daffodils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DV342_Ullswater_from_above_Pattersdale.png
http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1213249

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