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THE SPRIG OF ROSEMARY
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‘Indeed!’ spoke the Sun. ‘Do you, rich as you are, need help? But though you live in a palace without windows, the Sun enters everywhere, and he knows you.’

Then the bride told him the whole story, and did not

black and white illustration of a woman sitting and talking to another woman who is standing in a crescent moon.
The Maiden asks the MOON to help her.

hide her own ill-doing. And the Sun listened, and was sorry for her; and though he could not tell her where to go, he gave her a nut, and bid her open it in a time of great distress. The damsel thanked him with all her

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