ISBN: 9780217894821

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This… More...

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Suddenly his hair grew as white as snow, his face got wrinkled, and his back bent like that of a very old man. Then his breath stopped, and he fell down dead on the beach. Poor Urashima! He died because he had been foolish and disobedient. If only he had done as he was told, he might have lived another thousand years. Wouldn't you like to go and see the Dragon Palace beyond the waves, where the Sea-God lives and rules as king over the Dragons and the tortoises and the fishes, where the trees have emeralds for leaves and rubies for berries, where the fishes' tails are of silver and the dragons' tails all of solid gold? THE FAIRY QUEEN. An Old Song. Come follow, follow me, You fairy elves that be, Which circle on the green Come, follow Mab your queen. Hand in hand let's dance around, For this place is fairy ground. Upon a mushroom's head Our tablecloth we spread A grain of rye or wheat Is manchet,1 which we eat Pearly drops of dew we drink, In acorn cups fill'd to the brink. 1 Fine bread. The grasshopper, gnat, and fly, Serve for our minstrelsy Grace said, we dance a while And so the time beguile: And if the moon doth hide her head, The glowworm lights us home to bed. On tops of dewy grass So nimbly do we pass, The young and tender stalk Ne'er bends when we do walk Yet in the morning may be seen Where we that night before have oeen. WHAT BECAME OF THEM? He was a rat, and she was a rat, And down in one hole they did dwell, And both were as black as a witch's cat, And they lov'd one another well. He had a tail, and she had a tail, Both long and slender and fine And each said, " Yours is the finest tail In the world, excepting mine." He smelt the cheese, and she smelt the cheese, And they both pronounced ...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

1903, ISBN: 9780217894821

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This… More...

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Suddenly his hair grew as white as snow, his face got wrinkled, and his back bent like that of a very old man. Then his breath stopped, and he fell down dead on the beach. Poor Urashima! He died because he had been foolish and disobedient. If only he had done as he was told, he might have lived another thousand years. Wouldn't you like to go and see the Dragon Palace beyond the waves, where the Sea-God lives and rules as king over the Dragons and the tortoises and the fishes, where the trees have emeralds for leaves and rubies for berries, where the fishes' tails are of silver and the dragons' tails all of solid gold? THE FAIRY QUEEN. An Old Song. Come follow, follow me, You fairy elves that be, Which circle on the green Come, follow Mab your queen. Hand in hand let's dance around, For this place is fairy ground. Upon a mushroom's head Our tablecloth we spread A grain of rye or wheat Is manchet,1 which we eat Pearly drops of dew we drink, In acorn cups fill'd to the brink. 1 Fine bread. The grasshopper, gnat, and fly, Serve for our minstrelsy Grace said, we dance a while And so the time beguile: And if the moon doth hide her head, The glowworm lights us home to bed. On tops of dewy grass So nimbly do we pass, The young and tender stalk Ne'er bends when we do walk Yet in the morning may be seen Where we that night before have oeen. WHAT BECAME OF THEM? He was a rat, and she was a rat, And down in one hole they did dwell, And both were as black as a witch's cat, And they lov'd one another well. He had a tail, and she had a tail, Both long and slender and fine And each said, " Yours is the finest tail In the world, excepting mine." He smelt the cheese, and she smelt the cheese, And they both pronounced ...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

1903, ISBN: 0217894828