The Little Mermaid / ????

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When it grew dark a number of colored lamps were lighted</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>????????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the sailors and royal family danced merrily on the deck</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>????????????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The little mermaid could not help thinking of her birthday</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>??????????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the day that she rose out of the sea for the first time</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>?????????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>similar joyful festivities were celebrated on that day</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>????????????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>she thought about the wonder and hope she felt that day</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>?????????????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>with those pleasant memories she too joined in the dance</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>?????????????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>on her paining feet she poised herself in the air</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>????????????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the way a swallow poises itself when in pursued of prey</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>???????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the sailors and the servants cheered her wonderingly</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>?????????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She had never danced so gracefully before</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>????????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>?????????????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>but she cared little for the pain of her feet</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>??????????</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>there was a much sharper pain piercing her heart</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>???????????????</span></p>