Little white dove with the white, white breast,
What may that message be?
[Finds note, tied to wing.
Here is his letter. Ah, well-a-day!
I'll open it now, and read.
Little carrier dove, with fluttering heart,
I'm a happy maiden, indeed.
(She reads.) "O Princess fair, in the Ogre's tower,
In the far-off Summer-land