The Song Of the Jasmine Fairy

In the heat of summer days

With sunshine all ablaze,

Here, here, are cool green bowers,

Starry with Jasmine flowers;

Sweet-scented, like a dream

Of Fairyland they seem.

And when the long hot day

At length has worn away,

And twilight deepens, till

The darkness comes-then, still,

The glimmering Jasmine white

Gives fragrance to the night.

Night-Blooming Jasmine

"The Aroma of Heaven"

"The Song of the Jasmine Fairy"

Poem and Illustration

Cecily Mary Barker

(1895-1973)

British artist and poetess

Patroness of the English fairies