500 Daffodils will be planted tomorrow at Dorner Park and you are invited to join the fun.
Dorner Park in the 800 block of South Clay Street in Frankfort has playground equiptment, basketball courts, horseshoe pits, shuffleboard courts and tennis courts and a tree species identification area. Soon, thanks to the Frankfort Lions Club and other community-minded groups and individuals, Dorner Park will have another 500 Daffodils.
The Frankfort Lions Club, in co-operation with the Frankfort High School Crash Group and others will plant 500 Daffodil bulbs on both sides of the Clay Street in Dorner Park. The planting day will be called “Daffodils and Dogs” according to Lions Club member Chuck Tedrick. The Lion’s Club will make sure everyone helping plant the 500 Daffodils is well-fed during the get-together scheduled for 10:00 AM Saturday November 15th.
Daffodils bloom year after year and are one of the most beautiful harbingers of spring. Some would even say Daffodils bloom in “late winter.” One of the varieties to be planted November 15th at Dorner Park is a variety called “Pride of the Lions” created by a member of the Lion’s Club and named after the philanthropic national organization.
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A Poem first published in 1807 and revised by William Wordsworth in 1815
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.
This poem was first published in 1807 and later revised by Wordsworth in 1815.