イギリス旅行を終えて

今日は、イギリス旅行を終えて、手荷物と思い出を整理した。

ワーズワースの有名な詩と、思い出を記録にとどめておこう

           

 

    I wandered lonley 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.

（ワーズワース詩集） 

    Continuous as the stars that shine
    And twinkle on the milky way,
    They stretched in never-endig line
    Along the margin of a bay:
    Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
    Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

（ナショナルトラストの帽子）

    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

 

（キューガーデンの手袋）

    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.
   
    
                        William  Wordsworth
                                (1770-1850) 

 （グラスミアのクラフト展で買ったアヒルと湖水地方の地図）

     Daffodils