The Song of the Sweet Pea Fairies
Here Sweet Peas are climbing; / (Here’s the Sweet Pea rhyme!)
Here are little tendrils, / Helping them to climb.
Here are sweetest colors; / Fragrance very sweet;
Here are silky pods of peas, / Not for us to eat!
Here’s a fairy sister, / Trying on with care
Such a grand new bonnet / For the baby there.
Does it suit you, Baby? / Yes, I really think
Nothing’s more becoming / Than this pretty pink!
— Cecily Mary Barker, from A Flower Fairies Treasury

