The Happy Prince
Once upon a time, there was a prince
who had everything in life. He had not seen any sorrow in his life and helped
his people whenever he could.
A while later, the prince died.
People were so sad that they arected a statue in his memory. The statue was
made of lead and various jewels. Blue jewels were fixed in his eyes. The statue
was kept over a pillar at the center of the town so that everybody could
remember him.
One day, a swallow came to visit the
place and stopped between the feet of the statue. During the night when the
swallow was going to sleep, it felt a drop on its head. It looked up and saw
tears coming out from the eyes of the statue. He was very sad.
The swallow was surprised and asked
about what it could do. The prince told it that he had seen that there was
house in the distance where a poor woman lived. She was very sad because she
had no money to buy food and medicines for her son who was very sick.
The prince requested for the swallow
to help the woman. He gave one of the jewels on his sword to the swallow and
told it to hand it over to the poor old woman. She became happy after receiving
the jewel as she could buy medicines and good food for her son.
The swallow whised to fly to the
warm place where its family members had gone. It said goodbye to the prince but
he stopped the swallow. He whised for more work to be done by the swallow. He
took off his jewels from his body and all the pieces of his cloth. He whised to
help a poor young man who wanted to write good things but was unable to do so,
due to lack of money. Not only that. He also helped other people who where
unhappy. The prince never whised to see anyone unhappy in the world.
Then the day came when all the
jewlels of his body were gone. The prince looked ugly and shabby. The swallow
never left the place to help the prince. Then the snow came. The little swallow
got colder and colder, it knew that its end had come.
“Goodbye.” Replied the prince.
Something broke inside him. It was his heart.
One day, the mayor and councilors
saw the bad condition of the statue of the prince during their visit. A dead
bird was under his feet. They decided to remove the statue from that place and
replace the statue with one of the mayor. The workmen found that there was a
heart inside the statue which did not melt. They decided to throw the heart
into the heap of the dust where the little dead swallow was lying.
God was seeing this and ordered his
angles to bring the two most precious things from the town. They brought the
broken heart and the dead swallow. It is said that the little bird and happy
prince still lived in paradise.
kosa kata
Had
Any
Sorrow
Helped
Whenever
While
Arected
Statue
Lead
Various
Jewels
Fixed
Kept
Pillar
Between
Feet
During
Felt
Tears
Asked
Told
Sword
Warm
Cloth
Unable
Due
Lack
Anyone
Gone
Shabby
Colder
Broke
Inside
Councilors
Took
Workmen
Melt
Heap
Lying
Brought
paradise 