Explore "TO A CHILD. (Rosamund.)" by Edith Nesbit on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The fairies have been busy while you slept; / They have been laughing where the sad rain wept, / They have taught Beauty to the ignorant flowers, / Set tasks of hope to weary wind-torn bowers, / And heard the lessons learned in school-rooms cold / By seedling snapdragon and marigold.
At dawn, while still you slept, I grew aware / How good the fairies are, how many and fair.