Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 521
ipped across the corridor to find her Queen mama;But the pretty maid who met her at the sill,With a rosy finger-tipOn her gravely pouting lip,Warned her softly not to enter, for HerMajesty was ill. On the stair twocourtiers whis-pered, pagesgiggled in thehall, Lords and ladiespacedthe floorwith… … [HE PRETTY MAID. 508 THE CLEVER PRINCESS. 509 To the throne-room, where the King wassitting, sped;And the sunshine of her faceBrightened all the dreary place,As she climbed his knee and hugged himtill the crown fell from his head. Well, my Emmy, said His Majesty (and heaved a woeful sigh),I am glad…
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