Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Chapter 20

Then the Queen returned to her palace and asked her mirror,

"Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Among the ladies in this land,
Who is the fairest of them all?"

At long it answered,
"Thou, O Queen art the fairest of them all!"
Thus the jealous Queen was finally content.

When the dwarfs returned home in the evening, there lay Snow White on the floor, no longer breathing. Yet they still hoped that they might be able to revive her. They unlaced her stays, comber her hair and washed her face, but they could not find out how she died.

The dwarfs were heart-broken. They stood around her and wept, saying, "Our beautiful Snow White is dead!" For three days and three nights they stood round her, mourning.