The Song Of The Heart's-Ease Fairy

Like the richest velvet

(I've heard the fairies tell)

Grow the handsome pansies

within the garden wall;

When you praise their beauty,

remember me as well-

Think of little Heart's-ease,

the brother of them all!

The Fairy Heart's-Ease

Cecily Mary Barker

Come away and seek me

when the year is young,

Through the open ploughlands

beyond the garden wall;

Many names are pretty

and many songs are sung:

Mine-because I'm Heart's-ease-

are the prettiest of all!

*The Song Of The Heart's-Ease Fairy

By Cecily Mary Barker

(And old lady says that when she was a little girl the

children's name for the Heart's-ease or Wild Pansy was

Jump-Up-And-Kiss-Me!  C.M.B.)