The Nightingale and the Rose

El estudiante llora pues no puede conseguir una rosa roja para regalar a su novia. Algunos se burlan de él pero para el ruiseñor es un tema de vida o muerte. Conseguirá la rosa como sea aun arriesgando su propia vida.

De Oscar Wilde un hermoso cuento, The Nightingale and the Rose. En pocas páginas el autor logra llegar al corazón…

En vocabulario buscamos Nightingale, holm-oak tree, hyacinth, pomegranate, y daisy.

Wilde en Nueva York, 1882

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 “She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student; “but in all my garden there is no red rose.”

From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out through the leaves, and wondered.

“¡No red rose in all my garden!” he cried, and his beautiful eyes filled with tears.  “¡Ah, on what little things does happiness depend!  I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made miserable.”

 “Here at last is a true lover,” said the Nightingale.  “Night after night have I sung of him, though I knew him not: night after night have I told his story to the stars, and now I see him.  His hair is dark as the hyacinth-blossom, and his lips are red as the rose of his desire; but passion has made his face like pale ivory, and sorrow has set her seal upon his brow.”

“The Prince gives a ball to-morrow night,” murmured the young Student, “and my love will be of the company.  If I bring her a red rose she will dance with me till dawn.  If I bring her a red rose, I shall hold her in my arms, and she will lean her head upon my shoulder, and her hand will be clasped in mine.  But there is no red rose in my garden, so I shall sit lonely, and she will pass me by.  She will not notice me, and my heart will break.”

“Here indeed is the true lover,” said the Nightingale.  “What I sing of, he suffers—what is joy to me, to him is pain.  Surely Love is a wonderful thing.  It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals.  Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace.  It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.”

“The musicians will sit in their gallery,” said the young Student, “and play upon their stringed instruments, and my love will dance to the sound of the harp and the violin.  She will dance so lightly that her feet will not touch the floor, and the courtiers in their gay dresses will crowd round her.  But with me she will not dance, for I have no red rose to give her”; and he threw himself down on the grass, and buried his face in his hands, and wept.

“Why is he weeping?” asked a little Green Lizard, as he ran past him with his tail in the air.

“Why, indeed?” said a Butterfly, who was flying about after a sunbeam.

“Why, indeed?” whispered a Daisy to his neighbour, in a soft, low voice.

 “He is weeping for a red rose,” said the Nightingale.

“For a red rose?” they cried; “how very ridiculous!” and the little Lizard, who was something of a cynic, laughed outright… (Excerpts from The Nightingale and the Rose, by Oscar Wilde)

Vocabulary

Nightingale: (español) ruiseñor.

Holm-oak tree: (español) encina.

Hyacinth: (español) jacinto.

Pomegranate: (fruta) granada.

Daisy: (español) margarita.

De la web

The Nightingale and the Rose, read by Sir John Gielgud. Excellent!

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