20 February, 2026

Flower Fairies, The Snowdrop Fairy

 


Deep sleeps the winter, 
cold, wet and grey.
Surely all the world is dead,
Spring is far away.
Wait! The world shall awaken;
It is not dead, for lo, 
The Fair Maids of February,
Stand in the snow.






The Flower Fairies, The May Fairy

  My buds, they cluster small and green, The sunshine gaineth heat: Soon shall the  hawthorn tree be clothed, As with a snowy sheet. Oh magi...