But hardly had she a bit of it in her
mouth when she fell down dead. Then the Queen looked at her with a
dreadful look, and laughed aloud and said:
"White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony-wood! This time the
dwarfs cannot wake you up again."
And when she asked of the Looking-glass at home:
"Looking-glass, Looking-glass, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?"
it answered at last:
"O Queen, in this land thou art fairest of all."
Then her envious heart had rest, so far as an envious heart can have
rest.
When the dwarfs came home in the evening, they found Snow-white lying
upon the ground; she breathed no longer, and was dead. They lifted her
up, unlaced her, combed her hair, washed her with water and wine, but
it was all of no use; the poor child was dead, and stayed dead. They
laid her upon a bier, and all seven of them sat round it and wept for
her, and wept three whole days.
Then they were going to bury her, but she still looked as if she were
living, and still had her pretty red cheeks. They said:
"We could not bury her in the dark ground," and they had a coffin of
glass made, so that she could be seen from all sides, and they laid
her in it, and wrote her name upon it in golden letters, and that she
was a King's daughter.
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