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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, | 5 |
| 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: | 10 |
| Ten thousand saw I, at a glance, | |
| Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. | |
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| The waves beside them danced, but they | |
| Outdid the sparkling waves in glee; | |
| A poet could not but be gay | 15 |
| 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, | 20 |
| 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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