I always say University of Notre Dame has a wonderful gardening team.

They set up flower arrangement in time, and the head gardener must have some certain knowledge of art, literature related to flower, trees, and woods.

Like today, I walked by the lake and spot this sight, which is exactly what William Wordsworth described in his poem.

How did William Wordsworth’s Daffodil look like? —- “A host of golden daffodils dance in the breeze beside the lake, beneath the tree…”

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 

By William Wordsworth

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.