A Legend of Northland
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- So she made a very little cake,But as it baking lay,She looked at it, and thought it seemedToo large to give away.Therefore she kneaded another,And still a smaller one;But it looked, when she turned it over,As large as the first had done.Then she took a tiny scrap of dough,And rolled and rolled it flat;And baked it thin as a wafer —But she couldn’t part with that.
- For she said, “My cakes that seem too smallWhen I eat of them myselfAre yet too large to give away.”So she put them on the shelf.Then good Saint Peter grew angry,For he was hungry and faint;And surely such a womanWas enough to provoke a saint.And he said, “You are far too selfishTo dwell in a human form,To have both food and shelter,And fire to keep you warm.Now, you shall build as the birds do,And shall get your scanty foodBy boring, and boring, and boring,All day in the hard, dry wood.”
- Then up she went through the chimney,Never speaking a word,And out of the top flew a woodpecker,For she was changed to a bird.66 / Beehive2019-20She had a scarlet cap on her head,And that was left the same;But all the rest of her clothes were burnedBlack as a coal in the flame.And every country schoolboyHas seen her in the wood,Where she lives in the trees till this very day,Boring and boring for food.
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