Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales with illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.(1872-1944).LondonConstabl
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales with illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.(1872-1944).LondonConstable & Co, Ltd.Published 1913.“The Marsh King’s Daughter”The days and months went by. He saw at last one day that right from the bottom of the marsh a green stalk pushed up till it reached the surface of the water. Out of it grew a leaf, that grew wider and wider, and close to it a bud put out. Then one morning, as the stork was flying over it, it opened, with the sun’s warmth, into a full-blown flower, in the middle of which lay a beautiful child, a little girl, as if she were fresh from the bath. So was like the child to the princess from Egypt, that at first the stork believed it to be herself turned a child again. But when he thought it over, he decided it was more likely to be the child of the princess and the Marsh King, and that was why she was lying in a water lily. -- source link
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