"Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils."
"Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?"
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Source: 1825 'To a Skylark', l.1-4 (published 1827).
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