Endlessly Ever After Flashcards
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Grab your basket and your coat.
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Put on some walking shoes.
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Turn the page, and then begin: Which tale will you choose?
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She says, “My darling dear, you need to run to Grandma’s quick!”
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She’s feeling ill, I fear.
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Now take this cake, to cheer her up, and have a lovely day.
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But mind the path!
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For danger tends to lurk along the way.
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Which coat will you wear?
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These kids have suffered trials, and tribulations too.
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They’re somewhat singed and starving.
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Adventure will not feed them now.
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They’re battered, bruised, and numb.
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What these kids want is comforting.
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They need to meet your mum!
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She may be miffed you lost your cake and also lost your way.
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But she’ll be glad to bake a pie and hug their cares away.
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The End.
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I like your fine red cape, he says.
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I’m off to see my grandma, you tell your toothy friend.
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Her house is purple, with a gate, down at the very end.
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He flicks his tail and disappears into the sunny day.
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And standing on the path alone, you fear you’ve been unwise.
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You can’t forget his claws or jaws, his shifty yellow eyes.
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You wish he didn't know exactly how you plan to walk and where you mean to go.
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The somber drumbeat leads you to a coffin in a glen.
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Inside you find a maiden fair.
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Around it, seven men.
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The drummer stops and waves hello, then reaches for your cake.
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We'll serve this at the wake.
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You'e not quite certain what to do - you don't mean to be rude, but you don't know this pretty girl.
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And that's your grandma's food!
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It's only cake and they're really sad!
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These roses are so lovely, but every single stem is covered in sharp prickle-pins.
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It hurts to gather them!
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When suddenly, the vines all part and make a door for you!
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Of course you want to step inside, but is that smart to do?
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How do you dare to enter this castle of a home?
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And yet, how can you bear to leave where magic seems to roam?
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Are you really so afraid of magic?
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You knock and wait and knock, and then you knock a little more.
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I'm just a girl inside a coat.
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But then, of course, your zipper's stuck.
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And as you struggle with the zip, large objects fill the air.
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And though you turn to run away there isn't time for that.
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You're finished off in seconds, and you never hear the SPLAT.
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You bravely dash into the woods!
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Hello there, girl! the hunter calls.
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If you'd come any sooner, he might have chewed you up!
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It's awful dead, without a head, and feathers coming loose.
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You're grateful to the hunter, although he robbed your friend.
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Umm, thanks, I guess, you stammer, then turn and walk away.
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You're feeling so bewildered by this crazy mixed-up day.
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You hope Mum's baking pie...
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What sort of girl would want to chase a somber beating drum?
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It makes you think of marching feet.
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It makes the woods feel glum.
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You'd rather gather bluebells, collect some daisies too.
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Your gran's expecting you.
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However, as you turn to leave, you notice, through the trees, a vine of bright red roses (and big fat bumblebees).
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You've never seen such blossoms.
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Your gran loves roses so.
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But you're already running late.
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Oh my, which way to go?
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Do you really need even more flowers?
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You take one tiny nibble.
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You lick...and chew... and bite.
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It's extra yummy, gooey-gummy.
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Crisp and rick and light.
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Until you hear a cackle!
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A shout of witchy glee!
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You find you're caught in licorice.
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No matter how you rage, you're trapped forever in a magic candy-coated cage.
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Inside your coat, as warm as toast, you skip through every glade.
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You'll soon be at your grandma's house and sipping lemonade.
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But when you get to "down the path, you find you're somewhere new.
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It's brick, the door bright blue.
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You know your gran is waiting.
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But would it hurt to quickly knock on this fine door instead?
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Are you going to knock on this completely unfamiliar door?
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You've wasted plenty of time already, and you know it.
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The cabin light's so dim.
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And suddenly you realize: You're scared out of your wits.
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Some awful hunter stole my pants, and boots, and that's not all - while I was bathing in the creek, he also took my goose!
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When Mum finds out I lost our bird, she'll put me in the stew.
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Go see if you can find that hunter, and retrieve my clothes?
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Are you really going to head off on a wild goose chase?
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You can't imagine what might happen now to save the day.
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Your landing isn't terrible at all.
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A candy-coated cottage was there to break your fall.
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And when you search the wreckage, you find two more new friends, who - like the princess at your side- were facing grisly ends.
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Are you going to bring strangers along with you to Gran's house?
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You scurry over to the path, but which way should you pick?
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But since you've stopped, you think you'll sit and take a tiny rest.
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You really shouldn't have taken that nap.
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Now you've lost your way!
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You're not quite sure if this is death.
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You've never died before!
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If you're heading for heaven, you haven't let just yet.
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You hear some smacks, some cracks, some whacks!
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Are you ready to go home yet?
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You didn't heed your mama.
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You wandered from the path, and so you're dead - starting today!
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In front of you, a tunnel - a long, dark, winding hall.
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You see a light there at the end.
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It's time to head along that path, to march on toward the light.
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You know you shouldn't stray again.
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Because her voice sounds different.
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All breathy, hoarse, and low.
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Down deep inside, you long to hide.
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This story's getting kind of odd.
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You think this kiss can wait.
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You're much too young for kissing.
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You only just turned eight!
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And once beyond the castle walls, you find you've left your cake.
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But with each step you take...you wonder at that girl asleep, inside her walls of stone.
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And you will wonder all your days at what you might have done.
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You reach and grab a skillet, and hurl with all your might..
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He slinks away, brought low and meek, by your one angry blow.
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You've rescued YOU, all on your own.
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You're both saved and saver.
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The moment that you charge the queen, she gives a wicked smile and hurls her potion at your feet.
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Strange smoke pours from the vial!
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You feel a cloud surround you, an awful evil breeze.
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A force descends upon your limbs, and all your muscles freeze.
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The room now smells like roses, but something darker too.
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Like stormy nights and lost goodbyes...as sleep envelopes you.
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You may have choices someday and further paths to tread, but they're not in this story.
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You sleep as if you're dead.
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The End (for now).
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You wander up a winding stair; you scamper past a throne, until you find a tiny room, where sleeping like a stone, a gentle maiden waits for you.
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Her eyes are sweetly shut.
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Her lips are waiting for a kiss.
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Kissing's for teenagers.
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But as you near her cottage, a shadow hits the ground.
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I bet you're headed where I am, the deep-woods jamboree?
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Why don't you wander off the path?
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It's time to end your story.
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You kissed the princess fair, who softly stirs and yawns at you through endless yards of hair.
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And sure enough, a woman waits behind you.
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You know you should be napping! the evil queen exclaims.
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She conjures up a potion, unstoppers it, and aims.
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That furry bully has no right to bother you this way.
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But you've a care for safety, and so you shed your hood.
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The smell of flowers fills the air, so fragrant and so sweet.
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But then you notice there's a sound, a somber steady beat.
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You know your grandma's waiting.
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The question is...which way?
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You run to punch him in the gut and grab him by the hair.
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I have to leave, or Mama will be miffed.
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But once you're back upon the path, you hear an angry shout.
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Somewhere a boy is bellowing.
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But in your gut, you wonder what, and who, and how, and why?
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You track the shouts of rage and find them coming from a kid, a boy about your age.
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He's also dripping wet and wears a frown and underpants.
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You blush until your face is red.
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Are you really going to hang around with this wet, pants less boy?
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A girl and boy inside a cage?
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She means to make kid stew!
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You have to come, or else she'll nosh you too!
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You'll read a book instead.
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And after that you walk a ways; you climb a little hill.
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You spy your grandma's cottage.
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It's nice to rest a minute, to stop and think a bit.
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To see the world around you, and slowly ponder it.
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Until you spot a fluttering - a pale thing in the wood!
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And somewhere else below you, a man's voice fills the air.
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A hunting we will go! he sings.
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(When "snarly-snaggle-dagger" is closer to the truth.)
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I've got a hunch that this will come in handy...when i eat you for lunch!!!
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At that she leaps and howls and tears the covers from her bed.
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This day has been too much for you, and so you turn to go.
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You stroll along the same old path.
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As evening falls, you notice folks all heading different ways.
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You watch them walk and wonder...what happened in their days?
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You know it's nice to share your treats, and these guys seem so glum.
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But as you offer up the cake, you trip against the casket and stub your toe and stumble - and drop your picnic basket.
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When jostled by the cake, the girl for whom you're mourning appears to give a shake.
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I thought that I was dead.
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So then the wake becomes a feast.
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The birds and deer demand to sing and prance and celebrate.
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How lucky that a hunter just happened by today!
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How lucky you were undigested when he passed your way.
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It's lovely to be lucky, but better to BEWARE.
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From now on, when you wander - take heed.
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But you think fast and trip her up - she stumbles on your shoe.
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The potion tumbles from he hand, and cinders filll the room.
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It smells like last year's roses.
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So you head for the window and leap into the air.
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You'd like to pick another path, but fate awaits down there.
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You dash after the flutter and find it is the goose!
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But when you grasp her in your arms, she honks and wriggles loose.
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You've never chased a stolen goose before!
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Not only is it oversized - it's also solid gold!
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As you head home, back on the path, you think about the day, so full of strange surprises and wonderful that way.
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With princess fingers clutched in yours, you squeeze your eyes so tight?
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And all the choices you have left?
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You do not get to pick your path when falling through the air.
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When gravity's in charge, the only option is DOWN THERE.
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The porch is made of toffee.
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Instead, the walls are glazed with caramel and built of gingerbread.
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And...at last you try the knob and find it breaks off in your hand.
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In place of cake lost long ago you bring a gumdrop gift.
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But in that final moment, you bonk him, and - SURPRISE!
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In fact, he looks quite sweet, made all of fudge and candy floss - a giant doggy treat!
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She only had a goose to pluck, out back, behind the shed.
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You've got to know how fierce or fun or far that more might be.
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And as you wander off beneath a slowly sinking sun, you sense adventure down the path.
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But whether you adventure far or sit alone or snooze, the thing you must remember is that every day...you choose.
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