the bliss of solitude

Another full 10-miles today - here are the stats - preparation for the Edinburgh Great Run still going fine:

Date: 22/3/15
Height: 6 ft 4inches
Weight: 15stones 4pounds
Distance run: 10-miles
Pace: 10.5-mins/mile

And even managed a hasty-visit to the Allotment early this evening ... these dwarf daffodils adding some colour to the plots, and reminding me of the famous William Wordsworth poem, of the same name:


Daffodils

I wander'd 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 stretch'd 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.

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William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)

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