Fairy Bread by Robert Louis Stevenson - Children's Poem

Most famous for his novels including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island, Stevenson was also a poet. He is probably best known for A Child’s Garden of Verses. The poem 'Fairy Bread' is from this collection. 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. Fairy bread is sliced white bread spread with butter or margarine and covered with "hundreds and thousands" or sprinkles. It is served at children's parties particularly in Australia and New Zealand and is typically cut into two triangles. The origin of the term is not known, but it may come from the poem 'Fairy Bread' in Robert Louis Stevenson's 'A Child's Garden of Verses' poetry book published in 1885.