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"Ah, yes, no doubt," said the fern, "but you do not know the world yet as well as I do, for my sticks are knotty;" and then it sung quite mournfully "Snip, snap, snurre, Basse lurre: The song is ended." "No, it is not ended," said the flax. "To-morrow the sun will shine, or the rain descend. I feel that I am growing. I feel that I am in full blossom. I am the happiest of all creatures."
She pities herself bitterly, but it's all nonsense! But tell me how you got on yourself, and where you found him. Gerda and Kay both told her all about it. 'Snip, snap, snurre, it's all right at last then! she said, and she took hold of their hands and promised that if she ever passed through their town she would pay them a visit. Then she rode off into the wide world.
The fern was not wrong with its song of 'Snip, snap, snurre, Basse lurre. But the song is not ended yet, I am sure; it is only just beginning. How wonderful it is, that after all I have suffered, I am made something of at last; I am the luckiest person in the world so strong and fine; and how white, and what a length! This is something different to being a mere plant and bearing flowers.
"'Snik, snak, snurre, bassellurre! I'm master of this house! I'm the father of my daughter! Will you hear what I have to say? Mr. de Boots is a person in whom one may see one's face; his upper part is of morocco, and he has spurs into the bargain. Snikke, snakke, snak! He shall have my daughter!" "Now listen to what the Waistcoat says, little Anna," said grandpapa. "Now the Waistcoat's speaking.
It was good fun, and they sang over the dead ashes, "Snip, snap, snurre, Basse lure: The song is ended." But the little invisible beings said, "The song is never ended; the most beautiful is yet to come." But the children could neither hear nor understand this, nor should they; for children must not know everything.
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