{"id":2769,"date":"2019-12-31T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2025-06-07T19:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:30:53","slug":"i-wandered-lone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2769","title":{"rendered":"I wandered lone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>I wandered lone &#8211; William Wordsworth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/freespace.virgin.net\/putneyevan.church\/media\/were_c.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><sup>\u00a9 Stuart Moffatt 2019<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I wandered lonely as a cloud<br>That floats on high o&#8217;er vales and hills,<br>When all at once I saw a crowd,<br>A host of golden daffodils;<br><br>Beside the lake, beneath the trees,<br>Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.<br>Continuous as the stars that shine<br>And twinkle on the Milky Way,<br><br>They stretched in never-ending line<br>Along the margin of a bay:<br>Ten thousand saw I at a glance,<br>Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The waves beside them danced; but they<br>Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:<br>A poet could not but be gay,<br>In such a jocund company:<br><br>I gazed &#8211; and gazed &#8211; but little thought<br>What wealth the show to me had brought:<br>For oft, when on my couch I lie<br>In vacant or in pensive mood,<br><br>They flash upon that inward eye<br>Which is the bliss of solitude;<br>And then my heart with pleasure fills,<br>And dances with the daffodils.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an arrangement (some might say a mutilation) of Waly-Waly which illustrates how unsuitalble it can be for an eight metre verse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php\/I_wandered_lonely_as_a_cloud_(Stuart_Moffatt)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChoralWiki<\/a> and Noteworthy Scriptorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The copyright of this arrangement is held by&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:hymns@purechocolate.org.uk\">Stuart Moffatt (\u00a9 2019)<\/a>.<br>The midi file was produced using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/noteworthycomposer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noteworthy Composer<\/a>.<br>The mp3\/ogg were produced using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myriad-online.com\/\">Myriad<\/a>&nbsp;software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wandered lone &#8211; William Wordsworth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-music","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}