Daffodils as far as the eye can see

Dundee City Council has planted thousands of daffodil bulbs around the City and we are now seeing them in all their glory - the bulbs that is, not DCC.

This particular stretch of roadside is just around the corner from us and it has been such a joy to see so many daffodils coming into view as we drive along.

William Wordsworth wrote his famous poem about Daffodils around 1804.
The inspiration for the poem came from a walk he took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. Here it is:

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: 10
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.

Some older readers will know by now that they still remember the words off by heart - ah the joys of schooling in the old days!