THE FLOWERS
ALL the names I know from nurse:
Gardeners garters, Shepherds purse,
Bachelors buttons, Ladys smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock.
Fairy places, fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
Tiny trees for tiny dames
These must all be fairy names!
Tiny woods below whose boughs
Shady fairies weave a house;
Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,
Where the braver fairies climb!
Fair are grown-up peoples trees,
But the fairest woods are these;
Where if I were not so tall,
I should live for good and all.
--- Robert Louis Stevenson