The voice of the herald rang through
announcing the arrival of his royal highness,
King Hubert hurried to meet his son,
and was shocked when Philip said he had fallen in love with a peasant girl,
and she was the one he would marry,
not Aurora, the princess.
How will I ever tell Stephanas,
when the three fairies in
slipped in the back door of the castle.
They went up a circular stairway
to a room where they would await the
There, they gave Aurora their last gift,
the symbol of her royalty.
and began to sob for her lost love.
Let her have a few moments alone,
and the three fairies stepped out into the hall.
But the minute they left,
the flames in the fireplace flared high.
Out of them came a glowing,
Aurora followed the light
as it floated up a magic staircase,
gleamed in the sunset glow.
Touch the spindle, touch it, say,
or it will lift us up from the shadows."
and fell like dead to the floor.
The three fairies were sad of heart
they heard the herald cry,
make ready to welcome your princess.
But Flora and Fauna and Merryweather
knew the princess would not appear.
They decided that the kindest
would be to put the whole
They waved their magic wands,
sprinkling sleep -dust in the air,
and one by one, the King, the Queen,
and all their subjects fell
Flora overheard King Hubert
drowsily try to tell Stephan about his son,
and realized that it was Prince Philip
who had fallen in love with Briar Rose,
and he would be at the cottage
that could awaken the sleeping princess.
Quickly, the three fairies
flew toward the cottage in the glen.
Maleficent and her slaves
had been taken to the dungeon
high on Forbidden Mountain.
We can't go there, but we must,
said the three fairies bravely.
in celebration of her evil tri umph.
Maleficent taunted the prince,
who was chained helplessly
and told him that the peasant girl
was really the princess Aurora,
and there to remain for 100 years.
with the enchanted shield of virtue
and the mighty sword of truth.
For these weapons of righteousness
The raven spread the alarm
that the prince was escaping,
and all evil was loosed upon him.
But neither lightning bolts
Maleficent conjured a thorn wall
around King Stephen's castle.
The sword of truth sliced it through.
Maleficent turned herself
into a flame -spewing dragon.
pointed out the dragon's heart.
The prince threw his sword at
the dragon fell over the edge of the cliff
and dissolved into the black shape
of Malefi cent's cape on the ground,
Wearily the prince mounted his horse
and rode toward the castle,
then with reviving strength
He hurried up the stairs to the tower room
He approached the sleeping princess
Aurora opened her eye s and smiled.
Instantly, the whole castle awakene
again to tell King Stethin
that his son Philip was going to marry a...
But at that moment, the trumpets blared.
All eyes turned toward the grand stairway,
where the prince and princess,
were descending smilingly.
watched the tender reunion of Aurora,
King Stephen and the Queen.
King Hubert was delighted
with this joyful turn of events,
Oh, we just love happy endings.
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