Fair maids...

 

The Snowdrop Fairy

by Cecily Mary Barker

Deep sleeps the Winter,
Cold, wet, and grey;
Surely all the world is dead;
Spring is far away.
Wait! the world shall waken;
It is not dead, for lo,
The Fair Maids of February
Stand in the snow!

Cecile Mary Barker was an English illustrator best

known for her delightful flower fairy art work.

Seeing as we have the most lovely

bank of Snowdrops in flower right now,

I thought it apt to include her work...

Although our Snowdrops are really the 

fair maids of January!