The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Vol. 1: The Selfish Giant & The Star Child
THE ONLY THE SNOW COVERED UP THE GRASS WITH HER GREAT WHITE CLDAK AND THE FROST PAINTED ALL THE TREES SILVER WHOW AWD SPRING HAS FORGOTTEN THIS GARDEN WE WILL LIVE HERE ALL THE YEAR ROUND TNIN THEY INVITED THE NORTH WIND TO STAY WITH THEM AND HE CAME HE WAS WRAPPED IN FURS AND WE ARORED AL DAY ABOUT THE GARDEN AND BLEW THE CHIMNEY POTS
SO THE HAIL CAME FVE DAY R THREE AND THEN HE RAN ROUND AND ROUND THE HE WAS DRESSED IN GREY AND HOURS HE RATTLED ON THE ROOF OF THE GARDEN AS FAST AS HE COULD GO HIS GREATH WAS LIKE ICE CASTLE TILL HE BROKE MOST OF THE SLATES O O o g I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY THE SPRING IS So LATE IN COMING SAID THE SELFISH GANT AS HE SAT AT THE WINDOW AND LOOKED OUT AT HIS COLD WHITE GARDEN B AP I 0 0 I HOPE THERE WILL BE A CHANGE IN THE A WEATHER EL
BUT THE SPRING NEVER CAME NOR THE SUMMER THE AUTUMN GAVE GOLDEN FRUIT TO EVERY GARDEN JUT TO THE GIANTS GARDEN SHE GAVE NONE HE IS TOO SELFISH SHE SAID AISO IT WAs ALWAYS WINTER THERE AND THE NORTH WIND AND THE HAIL a AND THE FROST AND THE SNOW DANCED ABOUT TI THROUGH THE TREES Oe a NS ONE MORNING THE GANT WAS LYING AWAKE IN DEO WHEN HE HEARD SOME LOVEY MUSIC ST SOUNDED SO SWEET TO HIS EARS THAT HE THOUGHT IT MUST BE THE KINGS MUSICIANS PASSING Ay IT WAS REALLY ONLY A LITTLE LIMNNET SINGING OUTSIDE HIS WINDOW BUT IT WAS SO LONG SINCE HE HAD HEARD A BIRD SING IN HIS GARDEN THAT IT SEEMED TO HIM TO BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MUSIC IN THE
THEN THE HAIL STOPPED DANCING OVER HIS HEAD AND THE NORTH WIND CEASED ROARING AMD A DALICIOHS PEREUME CAME TO HIM THROUGH THE OPEN CASEMENT AND HE UMPED OUT OF BE ANO LOOKED OUT WHAT BELIEVE DID HE THE SEE SPRING HAS COME AT LAST HE SAW A MOST WONDERFUL SIGNT THROUSH A LITTLE HOLE IN THE WALL THE CHILDREN HAD CREST AND THEY WERE SITTING IN THE BRANCHES OF THE TREES IN EVERY TREE THAT HE COULD SEE THERE wAs A LITTLE CHILD AND THE TREES WERE SO GLAD TO HAVE THE CHILDREN BACK AGAIN THAT THEY HAD COVEREO THEMSELVES WITH BLOSSOMS AND WERE WAVING THEIR ARMS GENTLY ABOVE THE CHIL DREN S HEADS THE BURDS WERE FLYING ABOUT AND TWITTERING WITH DELIGHT AND THE FLOWERS WERE LOOKING UP THROUGH THE GREEN GRASS AND LAUGHING N AP IT WAS A LOVELY SCENE ONLY IN ONE CORNER IT WAS STILL WINTER O
