Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Chapter 21

At the end of three days, the dwarfs knew they must bury their beloved Snow White. Yet they could not bear to do so, for she looked as though she were still alive.

So they had a glass coffin made, in order that they might still see her. They wrote on the side, in letters of gold that her name was Snow White and that she was a King's daughter. The Dwarfs carried the glass coffin to the top of the mountain. Then they each took it in turn to sit always by the coffin, day and night.

There Snow White lay, as if still alive, but sleeping, with her skin as white as snow, her cheeks are as red as blood and her hair as black as ebony. Even the birds came and wept to see her lying still.