Unknown
R.L. Stevenson

All the names I know from nurse-
Gardener's garters, Shephard's purse
Bachelor's buttons, Lady's 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 people's trees
But the fairest woods of these
Where if I were not so tall
I should live for good an all.

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