The sleeping beauty picture book : containing The sleeping beauty, Bluebeard, The baby's own alphabet . lie spinning-wheels forbide spindles sharp are hid; jp a winding stair, 6 [ still turns her wheel withiay, and tried to learn to spin ; And down she falls in death-like sleep : they lay her on hev bedj And all around her sink to rest—a palace of the dead ! A Jiundred years pass—still they sleep, and all around the place^ A wood of thorns has risen up—np path a man can trace At last, a Kings son, in the hunt, asked how long it had stood, r\d—the charm had entered in ! | ^.nd what old t
The sleeping beauty picture book : containing The sleeping beauty, Bluebeard, The baby's own alphabet . lie spinning-wheels forbide spindles sharp are hid; jp a winding stair, 6 [ still turns her wheel withiay, and tried to learn to spin ; And down she falls in death-like sleep : they lay her on hev bedj And all around her sink to rest—a palace of the dead ! A Jiundred years pass—still they sleep, and all around the place^ A wood of thorns has risen up—np path a man can trace At last, a Kings son, in the hunt, asked how long it had stood, r\d—the charm had entered in ! | ^.nd what old towers were those he saw above the ancient wood.). An aged peasant told of an enchanted palace, where A sleeping King and Court lay hid, and sleeping Princess fair. Through the thick wood, that gave him way, and past the thorns that drew Their sharpest points another way, the Kings son presses through. He reached the guard, the court, the hall,—and there, whereer he stept, He saw the sentinels, and grooms, and courtiers as they slept.
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