© by Maurice Lindsay (1918 - 2009)

Language: English 
The wind that blew yestreen
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Modern English translation (Daffodils), also by the author: 
The wind that blew last night,
Made trees rear up their heads,
And wrestle as it tried
To steal the clothes from off their beds.
It must have shaken the sun
Whirling around the world
For off his flaming fiery ball
A few bright sparks it hurled
And dropped them round the roots
Of every breathless tree.
Cool laughing pools of yellow light
Daffodils, most fair to see.

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