The Little Mermaid and the Prince

The mermaid came to the young prince who could hardly swim any longer in the stormy sea. His arms and legs were growing weak as beautiful eyes were closed. She held his head up above the water and thus let the waves carry them wherever they liked. Now she saw the mainland ahead of her with high blue mountains on whose peaks the white snow showed as if swans were lying there. Down by the coast were lovely green forest and ahead led a church or a convent which she didn't rightly know but it was a building.