The Fairy Dew Drop

The Fairy Dew Drop

February 1915

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Down by the spring one morning

Where the shadows still lay deep,

I found in the heart of a flower

A tiny fairy asleep.

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Her flower couch was perfumed,

Leaf curtains drawn with care, 

And there she sweetly slumbered,

With a jewel in her hair.

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But a sunbeam entered softly

And touched her as she lay,

Whispering that 'twas morning

And fairies must away.

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All colors of the rainbow

Were in her robe so bright

As she danced away with the sunbeam

And vanished from my sight.

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'Twas while I watched them dancing,

The sunshine told me true, 

That my sparkling little fairy

Was lovely Drop O'Dew.

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-Laura Ingalls Wilder