The Yew Fairy

Here, on the dark and solemn Yew,

A marvel may be seen,

Where waxen berries, pink and new,

Appear amid the green. 

The Yew Fairy

I sit a-dreaming in the tree,

So old and yet so new,

One hundred years, or two or three

Are little to the Yew.

I think of bygone centuries,

And seem to see anew

The archers face their enemies

With bended bows of Yew.

"The Yew Fairy"
Illustration and poem by
Cecily Mary Barker
(1895-1973)
English illustrator & poetess
Official portrait painter of
the Croydon flower fairies