白雪公主.7 | Snow White Chapter 7

儿童故事 白雪公主 英语 有声 When evening came, and the dwarfs had gone home, they found Snow White lying on the ground: no breath came from her lips, and they were afraid that she was quite dead. They lifted her up, and combed her hair, and washed her face with wine and water; but all was in vain, for the dear girl seemed quite dead. So they laid her down upon a bier, and all seven watched and bewailed her three whole days; and then they thought they would bury her: but her cheeks were still rosy; and her face looked just as it did while she was alive; so they said, ‘We will never bury her in the cold ground.’ And they made a coffin of glass, so that they might still look at her, and wrote upon it in golden letters what her name was, and that she was a king’s daughter. And the coffin was set among the hills, and one of the dwarfs always sat by it and watched. And the birds of the air came too, and bemoaned Snow White; and first of all came a raven, then a dove, and at last an owl, and sat by her side. And thus Snow White lay for a long, long time, and still only looked as though she was asleep; for she was even now as white as snow, and as red as blood, and as black as ebony. At last a prince came, and with him a powerful wizard, and called at the dwarfs’ cottage. The prince said a wise owl had visited him and told him the story of a kind and beautiful maiden who seemed dead but perhaps was only bewitched. He had enlisted the help of his friend, the wizard, and journeyed far to the dwarf’s cottage, in hope of reviving the maiden.