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`` Why , '' said the people , when he had finished , `` the maid is easily cured , for it is well known among our folk that a kiss on the eyelids when asleep , from a true lover , will open the eyes of any one who has been blind from birth . '' Now , when the Poet heard this , he was greatly perplexed . For to open the eyes of his little Princess was to kill her love for him ; and yet , he could not forget how she had wept for the want of her sight , and here was the power to give it back to her , and it rested with him alone of all men in the world . So he determined to make her happy at any cost , and he turned his face towards the King 's palace once more and arrived there at midday , after travelling for seven days and seven nights without ceasing . But , of course , that was nothing to a poet who was in love . `` Dear me , '' said the King irritably , when the Poet appeared before him ; `` I thought you had gone for good . And a pretty time we 've been having of it with the Princess , in consequence !