Identifier: sleepingbeautypi0cran (find matches)
Title: The sleeping beauty picture book : containing The sleeping beauty, Bluebeard, The baby's own alphabet
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
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Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co.
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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;S;But said, that in the future years the Princess young should die, (n vain in all her fathers Col VI By pricking of a spindle-point -ah, woeful prophecy ! In vain in all the country-sid ^ But now a kind young Fairy, who had waited to the last, (are past; For in a lonely turret high, a ®JSteppedforth, and said, No, she shall sleep till a hundred years • ■ And then she shall be wakened by a Kings son—truth I tell— And he will take her for his wife, and all will yet be well. Ihere .lives an ancient wom^fne Princess found her out oAlas! the spindle pricked hef
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lie spinning-wheels forbide spindles sharp are hid; jp a winding stair, 6 (care.ho 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.)

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