Rapaura School was invited to attend the celebration of the creation of 4000 clay daffodils that had been created over the last 2 years by the students of Marlborough. This idea was first thought of by Marlborough artist Fran Maguire and then supported by many including Kate Vavasour who visited most schools of Marlborough to support the children with making a clay daffodil.
The students selected five daffodils for our school to support Daffodil Day.
Isla F read the following poem as part of the opening.
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.
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