"Fairy tales for those who believe,
are not a tale at all.
Ther're whispered to us in our dreams,
by fairies one and all."
- Carla Vredeling

"It so befel, in that fair morning tide,
The fairies sported on the garden's side,
And in the midst their monarch and his bride.
So featly tripp'd the light-foot ladies round,
The knight so nimbly o'er the greensward bound,
That scarce they bent the flowers or touch'd the ground.
The dances ended, all the fairy train
For pinks and daisies search'd the flowery plain."
~Alexander Pope

"I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
Where ox lips and the nodding violet grows;
Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine,
With sweet musk roses, and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania, sometime of the night,
Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight,
And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in."
~William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream

by John Christensen
 

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