The Nightingale and the Rose

Table des matières It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fi ne opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the market-place. 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 fl oor, and the courtiers in their gay dresses will throng round her. But with me she will not dance, for i have no red rose to give her” and he fl ung himself down on the grass, and buried his face in his hands, and wept.