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Sender: TheGreenOne The Gorse Fairies From a Flower Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker I was happy to get this card as an addition to my fairy collection! TQ TheGreenOne!

In heat of summer days With sunshine all ablaze, Here, here are cool green bowers, Starry with Jasmine flowers; Sweet-scented, like a dream Of Fairyland they seem. And when the long hot day At length has worn away, And twilight deepens, till The darkness comes—then, still, The glimmering

The green wheat’s a-growing, The lark sings on high; In scarlet silk a-glowing, Here stand I. The wheat’s turning yellow, Ripening for sheaves; I hear the little fellow Who scares the bird-thieves. Now the harvest’s ended, The wheat-field is bare; But still, red and splendid, I am the

Flower fairies of the spring -- Flower fairies of the summer -- Flower fairies of the autumn -- Flower fairies of the winter -- Flower fairies of the garden --...

Where the grass is damp and green, Where the shallow streams are flowing, Where the cowslip buds are showing, I am seen. Dainty as a fairy’s frock, White or mauve, of elfin sewing, ’Tis the meadow-maiden growing— Lady’s-smock.

There’s a gentle tree with a satiny bark, All silver-white, and upon it, dark, Is many a crosswise line and mark— She’s a tree there’s no mistaking! The Birch is this light and lovely tree, And as light and lovely still is she When the Summer’s time has come to flee, As she was at Spring’s aw

We look at Cicely Mary Barker's The Flower Fairies illustrations from a new exhibition at Mottisfont Abbey.

Since 1923, Flower Fairies have enchanted both adults and children alike around the world.

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