A child sat in a garden alone
beside a rose bush, overgrown.
Warm in the heat of the glorious sun
feeling that she and Nature were one,
when out of the sunbeams six fairies flew
with wings of luminous, shimmering blue.

They danced and floated in a cloud of light.
The child was enrapt and gazed in delight
at the beautiful creatures held in her sight,
and a wonderful love of these beings so small
filled up her heart and held her in thrall.

She was too young to know what love was about
but she wanted to sing and she started to shout,
To her mother and sisters at what she had seen
of the beautiful fairies, and where they had been
and the glorious feeling that left her serene.

But her mother and sisters alas would not listen,
they laughed so much it made their eyes glisten.
The child turned away and shed bitter tears,
she knew she'd remember this moment for years
and the precious gift that she had been given
would be locked in her heart, forever hidden.

Until this moment when she has told you!
Now, are you going to laugh at her, too?