daffodil (Narcissus) - a photo on Flickriver

            Daffodils actually come from Greece and were first cultivated in ancient Rome and Greece around 200 – 300 BC.
Their Latin name is Narcissus, which was the name of a handsome young man in ancient Greece who was told not to ever look at his reflection by the gods. He of course did and was turned into a daffodil for his vanity.
Daffodils are the 10th anniversary flower If given as a single flower, they are said to be bad luck, so always give them in a bunch.

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.

William wordsworth.
   

Taken on: April 11, 2020

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