Letter From the President

At one of  ELIQG’s UFO auctions I saw a pretty half-finished daffodil block that needed a home. The daffodil was my father’s favorite flower, so I bid on the block and won! I added log cabin borders that always reminded me of the Scandinavian cabins with their green grass and flowers on the roof. It became a memory quilt to my father. I wish to share with you the following poem written by William Woodsworth which is entitled:

“THE DAFFODILS”

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 be gay

In such a jocund company!

I gazed and gazed, but little thought

What wealth the show to me had bought.

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.

Toni Gilleeny

ELIQG 2010 President