Song Of The Geranium Fairy

Red, red, vermilion red...

Nothing seems to brighten up the often

dreary days of wintertime more than beautiful

geraniums growing indoors on a sunny window sill.

With buds and blooms in a glorious head!

There isn't a flower, the wide world through,

That glows with a brighter scarlet hue.

Her name is -Geranium-ev'ryone knows;

She's just as happy wherever she grows;

In an earthen pot or a garden bed-

Red, red, vermilion red!

"The Song Of The Geranium Fairy"

Poem and Illustration by

Cecily Mary Barker

(1895-1973)

English artist and poet

Official portrait painter of the English flower fairies