I wandered lonely as a cloud (Stuart Moffatt)

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(Posted 2022-11-08) CPDL #71477:

Editor: Stuart Moffatt (submitted 2022-11-08). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 231 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: This is an arrangement (some might say a mutilation) of Waly-Waly which illustrates how unsuitalble it can be for an eight metre verse.

General Information

Title: I wandered lonely as a cloud
Composer: Stuart Moffatt
Lyricist: William Wordsworth
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2019
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Original text and translations

English text

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.