The Song Of The Pear Blossom Fairy

Pear Blossoms

Sing, sing, sing, you blackbirds!

Sing you beautiful thrush!

It's Spring, Spring, Spring, so sing, sing, sing,

From dawn till the stars say, "Hush".

See, see, see the blossom

On the Pear Tree shining white!

It will fall like snow, but the pears will grow

For people's and birds' delight!

Build, build, build, you chaffinch;

Build, you robin and wren,

A safe warm nest where your eggs may rest;

Then sit, sit, sit, little hen!

"The Song Of The Pear Blossom Fairy"

Poem and Illustration

Cecily Mary Barker

(1895-1973)

English artist and poetess,

portrait painter of the fairies of the trees.