Come up here, O dusty feet! Here is fairy bread to eat.

Fairy Bread

Robert Louis Stevenson (1913)

Come up here, O dusty feet!
Here is fairy bread to eat.
Here in my retiring room,
Children, you may dine
On the golden smell of broom
And the shade of pine;
And when you have eaten well,
Fairy stories hear and tell.

the image is a detail from A fAiry Banquest, by an unknown (to me) artist , courtesy of Art Passions