278-Oscar Wilde: Skyrockets in Flight
Myths and Legends
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The Nightingale Said, Death Is the Price for a Red Rose
The story says that he could not understand it because he only knew things that were written down books. The nightingale flew to the scholar's window and said she would stain his red rose with her own heart's blood in a sacrifice for love. She sang all night, and her song was sad and beautiful, hopeful and forlorn. A single rose bloomed and grew crimson. He lay down on his little pallet bed as the sun began to set,. thinking of his love, who was not a bird. When the student woke that morning, he looked out the window as he was getting ready. He spotted it, a red rose in the bush outside. It wouldn't go
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