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Today is Middle Name Pride Day, so it seems appropriate for me to share some poems about roses for Poetry Friday since my middle name happens to be Rose! Some of my favorite rose poems are from Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies of the Summer (1925). The most famous is, of course, “The Song of the Rose Fairy”, which I love, but there is another one that I adored when I was little from the same book called “The Song of the Wild Rose Fairy”. I’ve decided to share both since I doubt most people have heard the second unless they’ve actually read the book. The art should be fairly familiar since Barker’s fairies are everywhere now and the poems wouldn’t be complete without them!

The Song of the Rose Fairy

Best and dearest flower that grows,
Perfect both to see and smell;
Words can never, never tell
Half the beauty of a Rose-
Buds that open to disclose
Fold on fold of purest white,
Lovely pink, or red that glows
Deep, sweet-scented. What delight
To be Fairy of the Rose!

The Song of the Wild Rose Fairy

I am the queen whom everybody knows:
I am the English Rose;
As light and free as any Jenny Wren,
As dear to Englishmen;
As joyous as a Robin Redbreast’s tune,
I scent the air of June;
My buds are rosy as a baby’s cheek;
I have one word to speak,
One word which is my secret and my song,
‘Tis “England, England, England” all day long.

Happy Middle Name Pride Day! I hope you like your middle name as much as I do mine! Fun fact for the day: Lynn is the most common middle name in America (it works for both boys and girls, so this isn’t a big shock).

And for more about Cicely Mary Barker and her wonderful flower fairies visit FlowerFairies.com!

Ever wonder how those reindeer fly? Here’s the answer!

Bridles of Flying

These bridles are leather and adorned with jingle bells. They allow the wearer to fly as if affected by the fly spell at will.

Faint transmutation; CL 7th; Craft Wonderous Item, Fly; Price 25,000 GP.

Today’s item is something that we are all used to Santa wearing, but don’t think about much - his fuzzy red and white robe!

Robe of Wintertime

This robe keeps the wearer warm as if they were affected by the Endure Elements spell and resists cold damage. It also allows the wearer to ignore any affects from traveling across snow and ice including speed modifiers and slipping. The wearer still leaves tracks. The robe also has pockets large enough to carry all that could fit in a standard pack weightlessly. There are no spell failure risks with this robe.

Faint transmutation, CL 15th; Craft Wonderous Item, Endure Elements, Cat’s Grace, Leomind’s Secret Chest, Resist Energy; Price 17,500 gp, Weight 1 lb.

Michael got a stocking yesterday and he thinks it looks like Adventurer Santa. Obviously (given the robes, staff, spell component pouch and familiar carrier) Santa is a wizard. This got us talking about his spells and equiptment. I decided that as an entertaining little Christmas gift to the few people who read my weblog I would post one of these D&D items or spells a day until Christmas! To start things off I have a spell.

Detect Worthiness

Divination
Level: Clr 1, Sor/Wiz 1
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard round
Range: Personal
Duration: 1 Day
No Saving Throw
No Spell Resistance

This spell allows the caster to see if a person has been naughty or nice for the past year. When looked at, a naughty person appears to have a black aura around them while a nice person appears to have a white aura.