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 895
was the continualstriving and desire to go upward—ever upward. It gleamed in herbead, gleamed in joy, beamed brightly in her longings. Then, suddenly, up came the Stork. He had seen the Toad in thegrass, and stooped clown and seized the little creature anything butgently. The Storks beak pinched… … UPWARD! The body was dead—the Toad was killed! But the spark that hadshot forth from her eyes : what became of that: The sunbeam took it up ; the sunbeam carried the jewel from the headof the Toad. AVhither ? Ask not the naturalist; rather ask the poet. He will tell it theeunder the guise of a…
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