Fairies in the garden [poem]

Title: Fairies in the garden [poem]
Creator: Ismael, Sofia
Language: English
Year: 1940
Subject: Philippine poetry (Filipino); Children's poetry, Filipino.
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Fulltext: fipril, 1940 THE YOUNG CITIZEN 135 A POEM FOR THIS MONTH FAIRIES IN THE GARDEN By SOFIA ISMAEL Mother, fairies are in the garden! At the garden gate is a blue harebell Which they have rung and rung, Like heralds' horns, their entrance tell. Last night I saw them from my window,· Each with a· sma}l, f(tckering lamp to tend; They merrily danced on leaf and leaf, To the mu.sic of the moaning wind . . The oleander bent at their fairy touch; The lovely ferns their fronds all curled N '?W tremble happily in the breeze, for they With silver bands by magic hands unrolled. At break of morn each leaf and bloom Shines with many tiny, liquid pearls: Are these the fairies' gems left behind? or may, Shed at parting, they be the fairies' tears? Mother, fairies are in ~he gardenl Now look at that blue harebell As it sways in the moonlight; the fairies Ai:e ringing it, their entrance tell!