St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-17
WANTED GREEN EYES.
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But there came day-a May day =
when the princess went out at sunrise Il
gather dew for charm to keep her al
ways beautiful. She had good reason
to wish to be always as she was, the
shepherd thought, for she was more
beautiful than any mans dearest dream,
The shepherd. lying behind furZe
bush, saw her kneel down and lay hel
white hands On the green grass to gather
the chill, sweet dew, smelling of the
morning and the wild thyme. The
shepherd arose and came slowly toward
her. She did not see him ill lie was
quite close to her. and fold of her long,
rosy sleeve blew across his arm as he
held out his hand to her.
"Will you marry me?" he said; 81
shall love you always"
"Who are yOu?' she asked in low
voice; and if he had been able to say
that he was a prince, one does not know
what her answer would have been. But
she only said:
Il am the kings shepherd"
"And l." she said, lam the kings
daughter!"
And then she began to laugh, and ran
all the way home. and in day and a
night she had forgotten all about him.
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when. one market day. the heralds went
through the town proclaiming that a
tournament was to be held in honor of
the princess, and that the brayest
knight might hope to win her. he came,
wearing a rusty suit of armor he had
borrowed from friend, and riding an
old horse that his uncle. the innkeeper,
| lent him to Try his fortune with many
others.
Then, one by one, all the knights who
haze come to the tournament were over
thrown by the shepherd, for love made
| him brave and strong beyond the wont
| of man.
He is only your shepherd, she said
| to her father, and the king was very
much annoyed.
Indeed. it became so tireSome to have
handsome shepherd, and shepherd
in love. and always hanging about the
palace, that the princess said to her
tutor:
How can 1 get rid of this young man
without hurting his feelings ?"
TEL him you have made VOW never
to marry any NAH whose eyes are not
green"
The tutors eyes were green. but the
princess had never noticed that, because
she never looked at him.
So next day she sent for the shepherd.
He came gladly, for, whatever she had
to say, he would at least hear her voice
and look into her eyes.
"HOw do you do ?' said the princess,
turning red and speaking very fast.
do you know I'm very sorry. and L
hope you won't mind very much, but
l really can't marry any one unless they
have green eyes"
"Wnat color are mine?" asked the
shepherd. II have never noticed
but his heart ached, for he knew we'll
enough that they were not green.
"They are blue" said the princess,
jumping up and looking at him. They
are blue like mine" She looked at
Then she said: They are blue-a very
nice blue, you know" She put her
hands Oh his shoulders aud looked
agatha longer look still.
"Good-bye," said the shepherd; twill
you give me nothing before go?'
She held out her hand, and he
kissed it.
THAT is the second time" he said;
1.-The third time my eyes will be green!"
The princess looked after him till he
had passed out of the garden. Then
she looked at the hand he had kissed.
The next morning she said carelessly
to her maidens, as they comDed out her
golden hair:
Il suppose nothing more has been
heard of that shepherd"
mo. your royal highness. Nothing
at ALL"
The princess sighed and was silent,
but she put the same question the next
morning and the next, and every morn
ing, and there was never any other
answer.
But the shepherd Jared forth into the
world. Somewhere, he knew, must be
that which would turn blue eyes to
green.
he had left far behind the mountain
country where his princess dWelt and
had come to land of elms and mead
OWS. green lanes, dim woods and bios
soming May trees.
Walking through the land one golden
May morning, just year after his first
sight of his princess, he passed into a
wood, where everything was alive with
springs greenest green.
"Oh, wood! Have you no color to
spare for me? just ray-enough to
color lovers eyes!'
And as he spoke he was aware of
white lady, who lay on the moss under
the shade of a hawthorne bush. He
paused to put his eternal question::
Can you tell me how to make blue
eyes green?' and stood there ready to
go on when he had heard the accus-
toned NO" but, instead. the white lady
rose and came toward him, saying
Yes"
She was gowned in white; about her
was girdle of May blossoms. She wore
a wreath of May blossoms Oh her hair,
and her eyes were green as the sea is
green, and they shOne like young lime
leaves when the sun kisses them after
rain.
Yes; but the price is a heavy one"
You would not, cried the shepherd in
sudden fear. ''you would not-you will
not kill love in my hearth"
81 will leave love in your heart"
"You will not make my princess turn
Your princess shall not turn from
you when you are come to her again."
"Then," cried the shepherd, Il Will
pay the price"
The white lady laid her white arms
round his neck as he stood under the
May tree. Already" she said, your
eyes grow greenW
She kissed him thrice-upon the brow
and upon the eyes and the lips.
CHOW gop' she said, "go to your prin-
cess-Who loves YOU"
lie threw up MS nandS ana Tell at her
feet.
"But do not want the princess any
more?" ne cried. There is no princess,
there is only you. Kiss me again! Kiss
me againn'
The white lady leaned against the
tree and laughed.
And far away in her palace the prin-
cess was saving for the hundred and
eighty-third time, as the golden como
went through her hair:
II suppose the shepherd has not come
back"