Wordsworth's "I Wandered..." Restated Challenge, Line ending words must be repeated Options

[jgdittier]

Behold the sky without a CLOUD,
Let clement air caress the HILLS,
As then was I who eyed a CROWD,
A dale of dainty DAFFODILS:
Before the beach, beyond the TREES,
Beckoning to me with the BREEZE

An auric acre of awesome SHINE
In matrix like the milky WAY,
A burst of beauty, none in LINE
With sea of sun along the BAY:
No way could I but give a GLANCE,
Winking and wagging in dainty DANCE.

How like the waves, these posies, THEY
will bow and bid in sharing GLEE:
What words would fail to gush with GAY
In green and yellow COMPANY:
I stood amazed, without a THOUGHT
And then thanked God for what He BROUGHT.

And now, as I'm abed and LIE
With peace and piety, my MOOD'
I see them with my mindful EYE
who join me in my SOLITUDE;
Then once again my mem'ry FILLS
and I'm amongst those DAFFODILS.

(to read Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", righr here it Mosaic Musings, go to
Legendary Libations, William Wordsworth, posted by Cleo.

[Alan]

Dear Friends,

I only discovered this challenge this morning, thought I'd have a go.

Edit : Oops I see I'm in the wrong thread. Lori, can you please move it for me ?

Thanks

Alan
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SWEET REVENGE

There once were times when I would take a SHINE
to a fair maiden met along the WAY,
not knowing that she’d hooked me on her LINE,
played me like a fisherman by the BAY.
Oh how I wish I’d payed more than a glance,
and thus avoided this most gruesome DANCE.

And how the gurning crowd would laugh, as THEY
could scarce contain their overwhelming GLEE,
at seeing one so serious be GAY,
although he did not fit this COMPANY.
In his blindness he could not spare a THOUGHT
and see low state to which he had been BROUGHT

I tell you now, it is no word of LIE,
that I was felled, and in such damn foul MOOD
to pluck from each of them just one good EYE,
that t’other know its lonely SOLITUDE.
Me this mercy with pleasure truly fills
that they can still cavort ’mongst DAFFODILS !

Alan McAlpine Douglas