Song
- Today do I bake, to-morrow I brew,
- The day after that the queen's child comes in;
- And oh! I am glad that nobody knew
- That the name I am called is Rumpelstiltskin!
However, most American children today know it as:
- Today I brew, tomorrow I bake,
- And then the child away I'll take;
- For little knows my royal dame
- Rumpelstiltskin is my name!
(German:
- Heute back ich, morgen brau ich,
- Übermorgen hol ich mir der Königin ihr Kind;
- Ach, wie gut, dass niemand weiß,
- dass ich Rumpelstilzchen heiß)
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Famous quotes containing the word song:
“Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent’s shadow. Our mother’s faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You praised and knew
the song they made was worthless
and the note,
they sung
was dross.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.”
—Andrew Holleran (b. 1943)