The Fairy School

The Fairy School by Marjorie Barrows

At goldenrod and aster time
The fairies near our pool
Put on some freshly laundered wings
And flutter off to school.

They sit at little toadstool desks

And do their fairy sums,

And learn to color autumn leaves

Before the frost king comes.

And then they study very hard

So they can spin cocoons

And sing the flowers all to sleep

With little bedtime tunes.

They'd fluttered home for tea today

When I went past the pool,

But I almost saw the fairy dunce

Staying after school!