I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: Quick late update: Earthquake

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Quick late update: Earthquake

There has been an earthquake (7.1 in magnitude) down here in little NZ. It struck Christchurch on Saturday morning early when everyone was at home in bed. The city was damaged badly and many of the older buildings were ruined. But we are so thankful it struck when it did at about 4am because allot of the damage was done to the city center where thousands of people would have been during the day. The prime minister, John Key described it as miraculous that no one was killed.

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: William Wordsworth

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 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.