[Editor: This poem for children, by Eva Oakley, was published in Fairy Poems (1945).]
The Frolics of the Snow Fairies
Their sleigh bells were tinkling the whole of the way,
When lovely Snow Fairies came one night to play,
And spangles upon their gauze frocks were so bright,
They flooded the whole of the place with their light,
And right up above, moon and stars all smiled down
On each little Fairy in her spangled gown;
When, all of a sudden, they stopped ev’ry sleigh,
And each Fairy reindeer stood still, by the way.
The Fairies leapt out with a most joyful cry,
And waved to the moon and the stars in the sky;
They then put their tiny gold skates on, you know,
And, twisting and twirling, they sped o’er the snow.
Soon afterwards they felt so happy and bright,
They drove off and kissed all good children, “Good-night!”
Source:
Eva Oakley, Fairy Poems, Melbourne: Austral Printing & Publishing Company, [1945], p. 7
Editor’s notes:
ev’ry = (vernacular) every
o’er = (archaic) over (pronounced the same as “oar”, “or”, and “ore”)
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