Kai sat quite still, stiff and cold.
Then little Gerda wept hot tears, which fell on his breast, and penetrated into his heart, and thawed the lump of ice, and washed away the little piece of glass which had stuck there. Then he looked at her, and she sang—
“Roses bloom and cease to be,
But we shall the Christ-child see.”
(from The Snow Queen)
Hans Christian Andersen's literary classic tale with digitally remastered illustrations from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature".
(Bonus: The True Story of My Life: A Sketch by Hans Christian Andersen (1847), Chapter I)
Then little Gerda wept hot tears, which fell on his breast, and penetrated into his heart, and thawed the lump of ice, and washed away the little piece of glass which had stuck there. Then he looked at her, and she sang—
“Roses bloom and cease to be,
But we shall the Christ-child see.”
(from The Snow Queen)
Hans Christian Andersen's literary classic tale with digitally remastered illustrations from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature".
(Bonus: The True Story of My Life: A Sketch by Hans Christian Andersen (1847), Chapter I)
