Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 521
ughters of Kings are apt to do;And the palace had fir-trees round about(The usual run of them have, no doubt).The Princess loved a Prince in mail,As one always does in a fairy-tale. He was handsome and brave, but, just the same,He had nt a cent to his royal name —Which, as every one knows who knows… … nil: llflPI ~—^r j jpssy -, All horrible spiders and darkest gloom,To worry as if her heart would break;And all for her penniless Princes sake!Perhaps it was mean of the stern old King,But in fairy-tales it is quite the thing! Well, the Princess had, as need scarce be told, A fairy godmother, bent…
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