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The Seven Dwarves on Death Row

from Seven Puzzles by Lyrian

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The Seven Dwarves on Death Row

Crowns of gold, and crowns of lead
In darkness on our brows
Come the dawn, the Queen has said
We’ll face our final bows

Unless each dwarf in line can tell
Which crown he has on
If so he’ll be set free to dwell
In peace and be gone
But how can we know whether lead
Or gold bears us down
In each crown, in each crown?

Many hours we mused and tried
To circumvent our fate
‘There’s a way’, the doctor cried
‘If only we were eight

Or six or any even number
Then we could plan
A code with which we could encumber
One of our clan
Who standing last in line could tell us
Whether each head
Bears the gold, or the lead.’

Narrator: All that night the seven dwarves fought among themselves. Doc hoped that one, or three, of them might be killed, leaving an even number to face the mad Queen’s executioner. But he was mistaken in his belief that an even number would be necessary for his imagined code to work; it would have functioned perfectly for any number of dwarves. By the morning all seven were still alive, and Doc despaired, believing he could not put his plan into action. The dwarves were brought out into the light and were lined up to answer the Queen’s question – what metal is your crown made of? – and had no choice but to guess. All were wrong and were quickly executed by the Queen’s headsman, save for one, a dwarf named Lucky, who guessed correctly that his crown was of lead. He was released and ran back into the forest. But he did not continue to live up to his name, for the experience made him quite mad and he went to live in the dwarves’ mine where he ate diamonds and died. Thus, when the wicked Queen came in disguise to tempt Snow White with a poisoned apple, there were no dwarves to find her sleeping body and arrange her funeral, and the Prince did not chance upon her. Miss White rotted to bones in the dwarves’ cottage, and was found twenty-seven years later by an itinerant jester who laid her skeleton to rest and wrote the following lament for her.

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from Seven Puzzles, released September 1, 2023

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John Blake: guitars, singing
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Paul W. Nash: keyboards, guitars, woodwinds, singing
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