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Title: The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book
Containing The Sleeping Beauty; Bluebeard; The Baby's Own Alaphabet

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: November 17, 2007 [eBook #23521]

Language: English

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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY PICTURE BOOK

Containing

The Sleeping Beauty; Bluebeard;
The Baby's Own Alaphabet:

With the Original Coloured Designs by Walter Crane

[Illustration]

Dodd, Mead and Company
New York

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.

Long, long ago, in ancient times, there lived a King and Queen,
And for the blessing of a child their longing sore had been:
At last, a little daughter fair, to their great joy, was given,
And to the christening feast they made, they bade the Fairies seven--

[Illustration]

The Fairies seven, who loved the land--that they the child
might bless.
Yet one old Fairy they left out, in pure forgetfulness.
And at the feast, the dishes fair were of the reddest gold;
But when the Fairy came, not one for her, so bad and old,
Angry was she, because her place and dish had been forgot,
And angry things she muttered long, and kept her anger hot.

[Illustration]

Until the Fairy godmothers their gifts and wishes gave:
She waited long to spoil t