Tuesday 27 April 2010

The wallflower



Wallflower, Wallflower, up on the wall,
Who sowed your seed there?


"No one at all:
Long, long ago it was blown by the breeze


To the crannies of the walls where I live as I please.


"Garden walls, castle walls, mossy and old,
These are my dwellings; from these I behold
The changes of years; yet, each spring that goes by,


Unchanged in my sweet-smelling velvet am I!"

From A Flower Fairy Alphabet
by Cicely Mary Barker

5 comments:

  1. Mmmmm, wallflowers - their scent transports me right back to childhood. I love them.

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  2. wonderful little rhyme ... what kind of flowers are those?

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  3. Beautiful photographs... wish I could smell them.

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  4. love both, the flower fairies and the wallflowers - we need smellovision!

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  5. Gorgeous! Loving your new "U&B" peg banner!

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