Fairies

Gertrude Minnie Faulding (1875-1961) was a British author. Her works include: Old Man's Beard and Other Tales (1909), Nature Children: A Flower Book for Little Folks (1911) and Fairies (1913). She also co-authored several books with Lucy Dale, including: Time's Wallet (1913) and Merely Players (1917). This is not the considered dogma of schoolmen or of sages in council, but the whirling utterance of a poet, and it is with some such answer on our lips that we must affirm our belief in the fairy world. For this belief is with most of us like a little plant, open to the morning sun, shivering gaily in the winds of life; scorched some times, and sometimes almost uprooted and vanishing away; yet ready always to blossom again at the stirring of ecstasy or the breath of an enchanted air.