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Read "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and answer the question.

[1] 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;
[5] 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
[10] 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:
[15] 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
[20] 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.

Select two lines from the text that demonstrate nature had the power to change Wordsworth's mood.

"lonely as a cloud" (line 1)
"They stretched in a never-ending line" (line 9)
"Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:" (line 14)
"A poet could not but be gay" (line 15)
"For oft, when on my couch I lie" (line 19

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Line 15. “A poet could not but be gay” and Line 23. “And then my heart with pleasure fills”
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