Daffodils

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0:00:05 > 0:00:11Hello! Come on, everybody, take a seat.

0:00:11 > 0:00:13Wow!

0:00:13 > 0:00:14Woo!

0:00:14 > 0:00:16BOTH: Hello!

0:00:16 > 0:00:19- BOTH:- Hello!

0:00:19 > 0:00:22Wiggle your fingers and cross your feet.

0:00:22 > 0:00:25Are you ready?

0:00:25 > 0:00:31One, two, three, watch me.

0:00:31 > 0:00:35Four, five, six, I've got some tricks.

0:00:37 > 0:00:42Seven, eight, nine, it's almost time.

0:00:42 > 0:00:43Ten!

0:00:43 > 0:00:45ALL: Magic hands!

0:00:46 > 0:00:49# Just look at my magic

0:00:49 > 0:00:51# My magic hands

0:00:51 > 0:00:54# Make your fingers super-duper. #

0:00:54 > 0:00:56Magic Hands!

0:01:00 > 0:01:02- BOTH:- Hello.

0:01:02 > 0:01:03I'm...

0:01:07 > 0:01:09And I'm...

0:01:13 > 0:01:16Look at what my hands can do!

0:01:16 > 0:01:17Oh!

0:01:17 > 0:01:19A whistle!

0:01:20 > 0:01:22I wonder if I can play it.

0:01:27 > 0:01:29Oh, it's beautiful!

0:01:30 > 0:01:34Because I'm deaf, I can't hear the music,

0:01:34 > 0:01:36so I like to watch it instead.

0:01:36 > 0:01:39I like watching when people play.

0:01:39 > 0:01:43I can also feel the vibrations as the flute is played.

0:01:43 > 0:01:45Music makes me want to dance!

0:01:52 > 0:01:55Ooh! This all reminds me of a poem,

0:01:55 > 0:01:59written by a woman called Elizabeth Barrett Browning,

0:01:59 > 0:02:03it's called A Musical Instrument.

0:02:05 > 0:02:08Oh, yes! There's a god in it called Pan.

0:02:09 > 0:02:15He's a bit strange-looking because he's half man and half goat.

0:02:16 > 0:02:19Pan is very important, though.

0:02:19 > 0:02:23He's the god of country music and he makes beautiful music

0:02:23 > 0:02:27from a whistle made using reeds from the river banks.

0:02:29 > 0:02:32Sometimes, Pan can be a bit naughty, though.

0:02:32 > 0:02:35Do you want to meet him?

0:02:35 > 0:02:36Are you ready?

0:03:00 > 0:03:03What was he doing, the great god Pan...

0:03:06 > 0:03:08..down in the reeds by the river?

0:03:10 > 0:03:13Spreading ruin and scattering ban.

0:03:16 > 0:03:20Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,

0:03:20 > 0:03:23and breaking golden lilies afloat

0:03:23 > 0:03:25with the dragonfly on the river.

0:03:32 > 0:03:35He tore out a reed,

0:03:35 > 0:03:38the great god Pan,

0:03:38 > 0:03:42from the deep cool bed of the river.

0:03:42 > 0:03:47The limpid water turbidly ran

0:03:47 > 0:03:53and the broken lilies a-dying lay,

0:03:53 > 0:03:57and the dragonfly had fled away...

0:03:57 > 0:04:00ere he brought it out of the river.

0:04:13 > 0:04:18High on the shore sat the great god Pan,

0:04:18 > 0:04:22while turbidly flowed the river.

0:04:22 > 0:04:26Hacked and hewed as a great god can,

0:04:26 > 0:04:31with his hard bleak steel at the patient reed,

0:04:31 > 0:04:35till there was not a sign of a leaf indeed

0:04:35 > 0:04:37to prove it fresh from the river.

0:04:47 > 0:04:51He cut it short, did the great god Pan.

0:04:51 > 0:04:53How tall it stood in the river!

0:04:56 > 0:05:00Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man,

0:05:00 > 0:05:05steadily from the outside ring,

0:05:05 > 0:05:08and notched the poor, dry, empty thing

0:05:08 > 0:05:11in holes, as he sat by the river.

0:05:19 > 0:05:23"This is the way," laughed the great god Pan,

0:05:23 > 0:05:26laughed while he sat by the river,

0:05:26 > 0:05:29"the only way, since gods began

0:05:29 > 0:05:32"to make sweet music, they could succeed."

0:05:32 > 0:05:36Then, dropping his mouth to a hole in the reed,

0:05:36 > 0:05:38he blew in power by the river.

0:05:40 > 0:05:44Sweet, sweet, sweet, oh, Pan,

0:05:44 > 0:05:46piercing sweet by the river.

0:05:46 > 0:05:50Blinding sweet, oh, great god Pan.

0:05:50 > 0:05:52The sun on the hill forgot to die

0:05:52 > 0:05:54and the lilies revived,

0:05:54 > 0:05:59and the dragonfly came back to dream on the river.

0:06:12 > 0:06:15What a lovely poem!

0:06:15 > 0:06:18I know another poem, about flowers,

0:06:18 > 0:06:23it's written by a famous poet called William Wordsworth.

0:06:23 > 0:06:25It's called Daffodils.

0:06:30 > 0:06:33In this poem, we'll see the lovely daffodils,

0:06:33 > 0:06:36with their yellow trumpets dancing in the wind.

0:06:39 > 0:06:42Are you ready to dance with them?

0:07:03 > 0:07:08I wandered, lonely as a cloud

0:07:08 > 0:07:13that floats on high o'er vales and hills,

0:07:13 > 0:07:17when all at once I saw a crowd,

0:07:17 > 0:07:20a host of golden daffodils.

0:07:28 > 0:07:35Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

0:07:35 > 0:07:37fluttering and dancing in the breeze...

0:07:44 > 0:07:47..continuous as the stars that shine

0:07:47 > 0:07:50and twinkle on the Milky Way...

0:07:53 > 0:07:58..they stretched in never-ending line

0:07:58 > 0:08:01along the margin of a bay.

0:08:03 > 0:08:0710,000 saw I, at a glance,

0:08:07 > 0:08:11tossing their heads in a spritely dance.

0:08:15 > 0:08:19For oft when on my couch I lie,

0:08:19 > 0:08:23in vacant or in pensive mood,

0:08:23 > 0:08:27they flash upon that inward eye

0:08:27 > 0:08:30which is the bliss of solitude.

0:08:31 > 0:08:36And then my heart with pleasure fills

0:08:36 > 0:08:39and dances with the daffodils.

0:08:59 > 0:09:01What a lovely poem!

0:09:01 > 0:09:03Did you enjoy that?

0:09:03 > 0:09:05I love daffodils.

0:09:05 > 0:09:09They're so pretty and brilliantly yellow.

0:09:09 > 0:09:12I love how the poet makes it sound as if daffodils are people

0:09:12 > 0:09:14dancing in the wind.

0:09:16 > 0:09:19When you're out and about in springtime,

0:09:19 > 0:09:22keep your eye out for the daffodils.

0:09:22 > 0:09:26Go up to them and say hello, but don't pick them.

0:09:26 > 0:09:30We want them to stay alive and be beautiful.

0:09:30 > 0:09:31- Bye-bye!- Bye!

0:09:35 > 0:09:36- ALL:- Magic Hands!

0:09:38 > 0:09:41# Just look at my magic

0:09:41 > 0:09:43# My magic hands

0:09:43 > 0:09:45# Make your fingers super-duper. #

0:09:46 > 0:09:48Magic Hands!