![]() ![]() The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the roses tells her there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night with her heart pressing into a thorn, sacrificing her life. 'The Nightingale and the Rose' A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. These are taken up to heaven by an angel that has deemed them the two most precious things in the city by God, so they may live forever in his city of gold and garden of paradise. The statue is then torn down and melted leaving behind the broken heart and the dead swallow. As the winter comes and the Happy Prince is stripped of all of his beauty, his lead heart breaks when the swallow dies as a result of his selfless deeds. ![]()
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