April ---- Poetry month.

I found a very old poetry book, one that I had as a child. It's title is 'The Silver Torch Series', 'The Jingle Book', compiled by Lavinia Derwent and it was first published in January 1939.

This was one of my favourites,

The Fairy Dressmaker.

A little fairy dressmaker

Lives in a woodland dell;

A bramble thorn her needle is,

Her thimble --- a bluebell.

She gathers up the petals shed

By every flower that grows ----

The daisy,and the columbine,

The pansy, and the rose.

She stitches them with spider's thread

To fairy gowns and things;

For buttons she puts tiny seeds,

And grasses green for strings.

And fast her magic needle flies,

As long as it is light,

For every fairy lady needs

A new gown every night.

Charlotte Druitt Cole.

I have no children to share this with , please feel free to share with your children or grandchildren.