Sunday, May 08, 2005

Dancing With Daffodils


A friend of mine is in hospital after mistaking affodilbolle (daffodile roots)for onions. I'd like to hear how that happened. Anyway, fingers crossed that she'll be out of hospital soon. Google reports its effects can be quite serious:

An example of a poisonous plant and its effects is the daffodil. The daffodils poisonous part is the bulb. Some symptoms are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and it could be fatal if eaten.

Daffodils
by 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 leaves 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.

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