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07.04.2021, 19:07 | #1 |
The Nightingale's Heart's Blood
The Nightingale’s Heart’s Blood
To Oscar Wilde “Press closer, little Nightingale“ cried the Tree, “or the day will come before the rose is finished.“ And as in a last and fatal effort the Nightingale pressed closer her tiny heart against the Rosetree’s thorn to crimson with her heart’s blood the pale heart of the rose a little drop escaped her breast and softly fell upon a blanket of lily-white snow beneath the Student’s window. And there – oh miracle ! – instead of melting into a plain purple stain on the very spot where it fell – the last drop of the Nightingale’s heart’s blood instantly froze into a ruby-red precious stone and rested there upon a bed of snow as if the nimble hand of a jeweller’s daughter had carefully placed it upon a sheet of silky white snow. How it was found and by whom we know not, but a worthy Navajo Indian artist in Arizona must have received it one day and, enchanted by its mysterious glow, skilfully put a delicate frame of shiny polished silver around it so to enhance its rare beauty. And then it finally found its way to the jeweller’s shop display in Frankfurt where after a century long journey it was waiting patiently for someone with imagination to know its life story and to appreciate its true value. But, alas, it’s only fools who seem to care whether a bird sings or is for ever mute; and who the heck gives a damn about roses as long as they are but of the written kind. |
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