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Tales From Dreamland. by the Author of 'seven Little People and Their Friends'.
Tales From Dreamland by the Author of 'seven Little People and Their Friends' Author:Horace Elisha Scudder General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 81 THE TWO ROSES. In the garden of the princess stood a rose-bush, overhanging a pool of water; there were two rosebuds upon one stem, and ever since they had begun to uncurl their leaves, and to look out, they had fallen in love with each other. All the day they looked into the water, and so looked at each other, or rather at each other's reflection ; but that was a great deal, and as much as they could do, for it was impossible for the rose-buds to turn their heads. One day, they saw another rose-bud that hung below them, but had no companion, plucked off the bush by the gardener. "That might happen to one of us," said the lover-rose, in alarm; " I could not bear to part from you, and surely the gardener would pluck you first, you are so lovely." "It cannot be," said the maiden-rose; "we are both on one stem, and he never will separate us. We shall always stay upon the bush, and I shall see your face in the water." " You know nothing at all about it," said a thorn on the stem, sharply. " Do you think you are always to stay looking into the water in that silly fashion ? No, indeed ! if your heads are not cut off like our neighbour's there just now, you will one day drop to pieces, and fall into the dirty water, and there will be an end of all your fine stuff." "Do not let us believe him," said the maiden- rose. "I shall not," said the other; "it never can be, that we should be so unhappy. But I wish I might get nearer to you to touch you; then I should be perfectly happy; but now I can only look at you in the water." The next day was a beautiful one, and in the early morning the maiden-rose f...« less