I. Little Rudy · page 21 2101The children of strength are more powerful, more ethereal, even than we are.102They can rise higher than our parent, the sun. They have the magic words that rule the wind and the waves, and compel them to serve and obey; and they can, at last, cast off the heavy, oppressive weight of mortality, and soar upwards."103Thus sweetly sounded the bell-like tones of the chorus.104And each morning the sun's rays shone through the one little window of the grandfather's house upon the quiet child.105The daughters of the sunbeam kissed him; they wished to thaw, and melt, and obliterate the ice kiss which the queenly maiden of the glaciers had given him as he lay in the lap of his dead mother, in the deep crevasse of ice from which he had been so wonderfully rescued.1 2← previousIb and Little Christinanext →II. the Journey to the New Home↑ back to Fairy Tales of Hans Christian AndersenThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/page/2/