Page 11 - The Raven

and trees to prevent the horses
of the Sun from breaking
through. There, upon a most
beautiful marble stone, he found
a raven, which had just been
killed.
The King, seeing the bright red
blood sprinkled upon the white,
white marble, heaved a deep sigh
and exclaimed, "O heavens! and
cannot I have a wife as white and
red as this stone, and with hair
and eyebrows as black as the
feathers of this raven?" And he
stood for a while so buried in
this thought that he became
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