Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 626
of life and love to Helga. In the swans plumage came I hither, said the mother, and herealso I threw off my dress of feathers. I sank through the shaking moor-land, far down into the black slime, which closed like a wall around me.But soon I felt a fresher stream; a power drew me down, deeper… … HELGA 13 TAKES BACK TO THE MARSH. ened me up in the moor was ever before me. I looked at the clefts andwrinkles in the stem, and they shone forth in colours and took the formof hieroglyphics : it was the case of the mummy at which I was gazing;at last the case burst, and forth stepped the…
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