Capitolo 1
Flower Fables
of Louisa May Alcott
"Shades that ponder, colors, clouds
Grass-gems and shrouds of caterpillar
You copper on that the wild chest of bees,
Dyed that the petal of the violet."
THE WOOD-NOTES OF EMERSON.
To
ELLEN EMERSON,
FOR THAT THEY WAS IMAGINED,
THIS FLOWER TELLS TALES
YOU/HE/SHE IS WRITTEN,
FROM HIS/HER FRIEND,
THE AUTHOR.
Boston, Dec. 9, 1854.
Contained
The Cold King: or, The Power of Love
The Visit of Eva to Fairy-disembark
The Lesson of the Flower
Lily-bell and Thistledown
Small Bud
Clover-flower
The Dream of small Annie: or, The Delicate Flower
You ripples, the water-spirit
Delicate song
FLOWER FABLES.
The moon in summer shone down brightly on the earth rest, while
far street from deadly eyes danced the Delicate people. Fire-flies hung
in the bright clusters on the dewy leaves that have rippled in the coolness
night-wind; and the flowers were standing, while looking fixed, in very wonders, to the
the small Elves that placed among the fern-leaves swung in the life-branches,
experienced on the lake in lily it shapes to cup, or he/she danced on the mossy earth,
to the music of the hare-bells that you encircle out their happier ringing
in honor of the night.
Under the shade of a wild rose he/she sat them the Regina and small
Houseservants of Honor, close to the silvery mushroom where the party
is shed.
"Now, my friends", it said her, "to while by the time up to the bright one
moon goes down, I/you/he/she do us each says a history, or reports what we have done
or learned this day. I will start with you, Lock Exposed to the sun" it added her,
addressing to a beautiful small Elf that placed among the fragrant leaves
of a primrose.
With a cheerful smile, "Lock Exposed to the sun" its history started.
"As I was painting the bright petals of a blue bell, it told me
this history."
THE COLD-KING:
OR,
THE POWER OF LOVE.
Three small you Do they sat in the fields that their breakfast does;