Hans Christian Andersen
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Image credit: Qianlong | The Print Collector/Heritage-Images/Imagestate..An emperor spoke in poetic verseWhich lead to fame for him at firstBut after some time became a curseFor the emperor had no prose.
INTRODUCTION
Gather round and listen here,
To my tale of pain and fear,
Father good, stepmother sordid,
Children with a fate quite horrid,