“Then Koland went away, and the girl stood like a red land-mark in the field and waited for her beloved. But when Eoland got home, he fell into the snares of another, who prevailed on him so far that he forgot the maiden. The poor girl remained there a long time, but at length, as he did not return at all, she was sad, and changed herself into a flower, and thought, " Some one will surely come this way, and trample me down."”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 56 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan