The Immortal Soul

She grew fonder and fonder of mortals wished more and more that she could rise up among them. She peeped out from among her green rushes and caught the wind in her long silvery white veil. If anyone saw it he thought it was a swam spreading its wings. Many a night when the fishermen were fishing by torchlight in the sea she heard them tell so many good things about the young prince who had saved their lives. There was so much she wanted to find out but her sisters didn't know the answers to everything. So she asked her old grandmother and she knew the upper world well which she quite rightly called the lands above the sea. Mortals on the other