儿童故事 白雪公主 英语 有声

Once upon a time in a far-away land, in the cold of winter, with broad flakes of snow falling all around, the queen of that country sat looking out the window, and day-dreaming about the daughter that she hoped to one day have.

The frame of the window was made of fine black ebony. As the queen gazed out upon the wintery scene, she pricked her finger, and a drop of blood fell upon the snow. Then she gazed thoughtfully upon the red drop that spread out on the white snow, and said, ‘Would that my little daughter may be as white as that snow, as red as that blood, and as black as this ebony window frame!’

And so it became pass that the queen was blessed with a baby girl, and her skin was as white as snow, her cheeks as rosy as the blood, and her hair as black as ebony; and she was called Snow White.

When Snow White was growing into a young woman, her mother the beloved queen tragically fell ill and soon passed away. After a long year of grieving, the king remarried. The new queen was very beautiful, but so vain that she could not bear to think that anyone could be more beautiful than she was. She had a magic looking-glass, to which she used to go, and then she would gaze upon herself in it, and say:

‘Tell me, glass, tell me true!

Of all the ladies in the land,

Who is fairest, tell me, who?’

And the glass had always answered:

‘Thou, queen, art the fairest in all the land.’