岬ではもう枯れつくしたと思われる水仙が横浜ではまだ咲いている。
昨日の天気は２０度でゴールデンウィーク中の天気だと報じられていた。
知り合いから「虫起こしの雨のあと」ってタイトルでメッセージを頂いたけど、昨日は啓蟄。いつもは見事にずれる太陰暦の暦が今年は少しもおかしくない。
昨日は暖かな風が吹き荒れまさにMay Storm。２月のこの時期であればWintergewitterであってもおかしくない時期なのに。
ワーズワースの水仙
私は一人さまよっていた
谷や丘の上の雲のように
突然私の目に飛び込んできたものは
金色の水仙の群れ
湖の周りに、木の下に
風に吹かれて舞い踊っている
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.
このときに同行した彼の妹（Dorothy)の日記では、この日はBreezeどころか嵐のようだったらしい。
When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water‐side. We fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and yet more; and at last, under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and about them; some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness; and the rest tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind, that blew upon them over the lake; they looked so gay, ever glancing, ever changing. This wind blew directly over the lake to them. There was here and there a little knot, and a few stragglers a few yards higher up; but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity, unity, and life of that one busy highway. We rested again and again. The bays were stormy, and we heard the waves at different distances, and in the middle of the water, like the sea.
関東ではつつじが満開のころの４月１５日。
Ullswater、イギリスの湖水地帯。
トップの水仙は岬で１２月に撮影したもの。
