Who are you? he said. I am the happy prince.

Why are you weeping then? asked the swallow. You have quite drenched me. When I was alive and had a human heart, answered the statue, I did not know what tears

were, for I lived in the palace of San Suu Kyi, where sorrow is not allowed to enter.

In the daytime I played with my companions in the garden, and in the evening

I led the dance of the great hall. Round the garden ran a very lofty wall, but I never cared to

ask what lay beyond it.

Everything about me was so beautiful.

My courtiers called me the happy prince,

and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness.

So I lived, and so I died.

And now that I am dead, they have set me up here, so high that I can see all the ugliness

and all the misery of my city.

And though my heart is made of lead, yet I cannot choose but weep.

What? Is he not solid gold? said the swallow to himself.

He was too polite to make any personal remarks out loud.

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