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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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"Caw! caw!" screamed the crow, and flew
down, in order to be appointed nightingale:
one there should be – and so the crow was
directly appointed.

"Past! past!" sighed the Rose King, "all the
beautiful is past!"

It was wet; it was gloomy; there was cold
and wind, and the rain pelted down over the
fields, and through the forest, like long water
jets. Where are the birds that sang? where
are the flowers in the meadows, and the sweet
berries in the wood? – past! past!

A light shone from the forester’s house: it
twinkled like a star, and shed its long rays out
between the trees. A song was heard from
within; pretty children played around their old
grandfather, who sat with the Bible on his lap
and read about God, and eternal life, and spoke
of the spring that would come again: he spoke
of the forest that would renew its green leaves,
of the roses that would flower, of the nightingales
that would sing, and of the beautiful that
would again be paramount.

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