This is about dwarves, which can be considered a type of fairy:
SONG OF DURIN
(by J.R.R. Tolkien from The Fellowship of The Ring). Set by music by the Tolkien Ensemble

1. The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone,
When Durin woke and woke alone.
He named the nameless hills and dells,
He drank from yet untasted wells,
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadow of his head.

2. The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond*
And Gondolin*, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away,
The world was fair in Durin's Day.

3. A king he was on carven throne
In many-pillared halls of stone
With golden roof and silver floor,
And runes of power upon the door.
The light of sun and star and moon
In shining lamps of crystal hewn,
Undimmed by cloud or shade of night,
There shone for ever fair and bright.

4. There hammer on the anvil smote,
There chisel clove, and graver wrote,
There forged was blade, and bound was hilt;
The delver mined, the mason built.
There beryl, pearl, and opal pale,
And metal wrought like fishes' mail,
Buckler and corset, axe and sword,
And shining spears were laid in hoard.

5. Unwearied then were Durin's folk;
Beneath the mountains music woke:
The harpers harped, the minstrels sang,
And at the gates the trumpets rang.

6. The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge's fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls;
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls:
The shadow lies upon his tomb
In Moria, in Khazad-dûm.
But still the sunken stars appear
In dark and windless Mirrormere.
There lies his crown in water deep
Till Durin wakes again from sleep.