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Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

Hans Christian Andersen
Ocean, Sea, Steeples
Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely. A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone! By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal.

Hans Christian Andersen
Morning, Heart, Gun
Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.

Hans Christian Andersen
Dust, Years, Doe
Hans Christian Andersen, Henry William Dulcken (2002). “Stories and Tales”, p.237, Psychology Press

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.

Hans Christian Andersen
Father, Men, People
Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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