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Versified by Mrs Clara Doty Bates	A
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Poor pretty little thing she was	B
The sweetest faced of girls	C
With eyes as blue as larkspurs	C
And a mass of tossing curls	C
But her step mother had for her	D
Only blows and bitter words	C
While she thought her own two ugly crows	C
The whitest of all birds	C
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She was the little household drudge	E
And wore a cotton gown	F
While the sisters clad in silk and satin	G
Flaunted through the town	F
When her work was done her only place	C
Was the chimney corner bench	H
For which one called her Cinderella	I
The other Cinder wench	H
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But years went on and Cinderella	I
Bloomed like a wild wood rose	C
In spite of all her kitchen work	J
And her common dingy clothes	C
While the two step sisters year by year	K
Grew scrawnier and plainer	D
Two peacocks with their tails outspread	L
Were never any vainer	D
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One day they got a note a pink	M
Sweet scented crested one	G
Which was an invitation	G
To a ball from the king's son	G
Oh then poor Cinderella	I
Had to starch and iron and plait	L
And run of errands frill and crimp	N
And ruffle early and late	L
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And when the ball night came at last	L
She helped to paint their faces	C
To lace their satin shoes and deck	O
Them up with flowers and laces	C
Then watched their coach roll grandly	P
Out of sight and after that	L
She sat down by the chimney	P
In the cinders with the cat	L
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And sobbed as if her heart would break	Q
Hot tears were on her lashes	C
Her little hands got black with soot	L
Her feet begrimed with ashes	C
When right before her on the hearth	R
She knew not how nor why	S
A little odd old woman stood	L
And said Why do you cry	S
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It is so very lonely here	D
Poor Cinderella said	L
And sobbed again The little odd	L
Old woman bobbed her head	L
And laughed a merry kind of laugh	T
And whispered Is that all	U
Wouldn't my little Cinderella	I
Like to go to the ball	U
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Run to the garden then and fetch	H
A pumpkin large and nice	C
Go to the pantry shelf and from	V
The mouse traps get the mice	C
Rats you will find in the rat trap	W
And from the watering pot	L
Or from under the big flat garden stone	X
Six lizards must be got	L
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Nimble as crickets in the grass	C
She ran till it was done	G
And then God mother stretched her wand	L
And touched them every one	G
The pumpkin changed into a coach	H
Which glittered as it rolled	L
And the mice became six horses	C
With harnesses of gold	L
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One rat a herald was to blow	Y
A trumpet in advance	C
And the first blast that he sounded	L
Made the horses plunge and prance	C
And the lizards were made footmen	G
Because they were so spry	S
And the old rat coachman on the box	C
Wore jeweled livery	P
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And then on Cinderella's dress	C
The magic wand was laid	L
And straight the dingy gown became	Z
A glistening gold brocade	L
The gems that shone upon her fingers	C
Nothing could surpass	C
And on her dainty little feet	L
Were slippers made of glass	C
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Be sure you get back here my dear	D
At twelve o'clock at night	L
Godmother said and in a twinkling	A2
She was out of sight	L
When Cinderella reached the ball	U
And entered at the door	D
So beautiful a lady	P
None had ever seen before	D
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The Prince his admiration showed	L
In every word and glance	C
He led her out to supper	D
And he chose her for the dance	C
But she kept in mind the warning	A2
That her Godmother had given	G
And left the ball with all its charm	B2
At just half after eleven	G
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Next night there was another ball	U
She helped her sisters twain	G
To pinch their waists and curl their hair	D
And paint their cheeks again	G
Then came the fairy Godmother	D
And with her wand once more	D
Arrayed her out in greater splendor	D
Even than before	D
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The coach and six with gay outriders	C
Bore her through the street	L
And a crowd was gathered round to look	C2
The lady was so sweet	L
So light of heart and face and mien	G
As happy children are	D
And when her foot stepped down	G
Her slipper twinkled like a star	D
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Again the Prince chose only her	D
For waltz or tete a tete	L
So swift the minutes flew she did not	L
Dream it could be late	L
But all at once remembering	A2
What her Godmother had said	L
And hearing twelve begin to strike	D2
Upon the clock she fled	L
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Swift as a swallow on the wing	A2
She darted but alas	C
Dropped from one flying foot the tiny	P
Slipper made of glass	C
But she got away and well it was	C
She did for in a trice	C
Her coach changed to a pumpkin	G
And her horses became mice	C
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And back into the cinder dress	C
Was changed the gold brocade	L
The prince secured the slipper	D
And this proclamation made	L
That the country should be searched	L
And any lady far or wide	L
Who could get the slipper on her foot	L
Should straightway be his bride	L
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So every lady tried it	L
With her Mys and Ahs and Ohs	C
And Cinderella's sisters pared	L
Their heels and pared their toes	C
But all in vain Nobody's foot	L
Was small enough for it	L
Till Cinderella tried it	L
And it was a perfect fit	L
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Then the royal heralds hardly	P
Knew what it was best to do	L
When from out her tattered pocket	L
Forth she drew the other shoe	L
While the eyelids on the larkspur eyes	C
Dropped down a snowy vail	E2
And the sisters turned from pale to red	L
And then from red to pale	E2
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And in hateful anger cried and stormed	L
And scolded and all that	L
And a courtier without thinking	A2
Tittered out behind his hat	L
For here was all the evidence	C
The Prince had asked complete	L
Two little slippers made of glass	C
Fitting two little feet	L
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So the Prince with all his retinue	L
Came there to claim his wife	F2
And he promised he would love her	D
With devotion all his life	F2
At the marriage there was splendid	L
Music dancing wedding cake	Q
And he kept the slipper as a treasure	D
Ever for her sake	Q

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