I'm everyone's darling: the blackbird and starling
Are shouting about me from blossoming boughs;
For I, the Lent Lily, the Daffy-down-dilly,
Have heard through the country the call to arouse.
The Daffodil Fairy
Cecily Mary Barker
Image courtesy/Flower Fairies
The orchards are ringing with voices a-singing
The praise of my petticoat, praise of my gown;
The children are playing, and hark! they are saying
The Daffy-down-dilly is come to town!
"The Daffodil Fairy"
Cecily Mary Barker
(1895-1973)
British illustrator and official portrait
painter of the English Flower Fairies
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