24 May 2012
There once was a tiny maiden Not much bigger than your thumb Hatched in a barley corn flower Who cheered you up if you were glum Just by speaking to you sweetly Her laugh tinkled like a stream This pretty little tiny girl Who sang just like a dream
She lived with a lonely woman As her beautiful daughter Until one day, she was stolen away By a toad who wished to court her She was trapped on a lily pad Due to become his wife When the fishes in the pond helped her She drifted to a new life
Upon her little lily pad She floated down the river All lonesome and alone Until she felt the air quiver She was borne aloft on the wing By a cockchafer looking smugly Upon the face of his little prize But his family called her ugly!
This is not true, far from it She was the most pretty creature But she felt hurt and upset That they thought little of her features She left them and aimlessly wandered Across the land, far and wide Until an old kind wood mouse Asked her to come inside
She looked after her and fed her Clothed her and kept her from harm She was delighted by thumbelina And was impressed by her sweet charm She introduced her to their neighbour The high and mighty mole, Who dressed in the greatest velvet And lived down in his hole
One day they chanced upon a bird Frozen numb with the cold So she threw blankets over him And strengthened on life his hold The mole fell in love with thumbelina And asked for them to be wed But Thumbelina didn't love him So she and the swallow fled!
He took her to a breathtaking place Where all the swallows did live And to little Thumbelina dear A sweet nest he did give He took her to a clearing To pick some petals for her lining And came across a little man Upon whom the sun was shining
With just one look he fell for her Our tiny little maiden sweet He asked her for her hand in marriage And they danced along the street In the end dear Thumbelina Found a place she did belong And the swallow tells all of her story In his tweeting song!
I.Sparrow
(for @naaviie, hope you like it!)
Thumbelina • Opuss № I