OscARDCIES THE HAPPY PRINCE OPUS 2Oil A D AP TED or COMICS P CR AIG R U 3 3 E ILI HIGH ABOVE THE CITY ON A TALL COLUMN STOOD THE STATE OF THE HAPPY PRINCE HE WAS GLDED ALL OVER WITH THIN LEAVES OF FNE GOLD FOR EYES HE HAD TWO BRIGHT SAPPHIRES ANDA LARGE RED RABY GLOWED ON HIS SWORD HILT B HE WAS VERY MUCH ADMIRED INDEED HE IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A WEATHERCOCK REMARKED ONE OF THE TOWN COUNCILLORS WHO WISHED TO GAIN A REPUTATION FOR HAVING ARTISTIC TASTEs TV ONLY NOT QUITE SO USEFUL HE ADDED FEARING LEST PEOPLE SHOULD THINK HIM UNPRACTICAL WHICH HE REALLY WAS
WHY CAN T THE HAPPY YOU BE LIKE PRINCENEVER THE HAPPY ASKED A SENS DREAMS OF CRYING PRINCE FOR ANYTHING BLE MOTHER OF HER LITTLE BOY 8 WHO WAS CRYING FOR THE MOON An AA I AM GLAD THERE IS SOMEONE IN THE WORLD WHO IS QUITE HAPPY HE LOOKS L JUST LIKE AN ANGEL SAID THE CHARITY CHILDREN As THEY CAME OUT OF THE CATHEDRAL IN THEIR BRIGHT SCARLET CLOAKS AND THEIR CLEAN WHITE PNAFORES Do you KNOW SAID THE MATHE MATICAL MASTER MUTTERED A SES DISAPPOINTED MAN AS HE GAZED AT THE WONDERFUL STATue HAVE NEVER common SEEN RI AH BUT WE HAVE IN OUR F ANSWERED DREAMS THE CHILDREN AND THE MATHEMATICAL MASTER FROWNED AND LOOKED VERY SEVERE FOR HE DO NOT APPROVE OF CHILDREN
HIS FRIENDS HAD GONE AWAY TO EGYPT SIX WEEKG BEFORE BUT HE HAD STASYED BEHIND a ONE NIGHT THERE FLEW OVER THE CITY A LITTLE SWALLOW FOR HE WAS IN LOVE WITH THE MOST BEAUTIFUL REED HE HAD METHER EARLY IN THE SPRING AS HE WAS FLYING DOWN THE RIVER AFTER A BIG YELLOW MOTH AND HAD BEEN SO ATTRACTED BY HER SLENDER WA ST THAT HE HAD STOPPED TO TALK TO HER a D a NASCAR and SHALL I LOVE YOU SAID THE SWALLOW WHO LIKED TO COME TO THE POINT AT ONCE AND THE REED MADE HIM A LOW BOW E May SO HE FLEW ROUND AND ROUND HER TOUCHING THE WATER WITH HIS WINGS AND MAKING GILVER RIPPLES THI WAS His couRTSHIP AND IT LASTED ALL THROUGH THE SUMMER IT is a RIDICULOUS ATTACHMENT TWITTERED THE OTHER SWALLOWS SHE HAS NO MONEY AND FAR TOO MANY