'Of myself,' said each of the Town Councillors, and they quarrelled. When I
last heard of them they were quarrelling still.
'What a strange thing!' said the overseer of the workmen at the foundry.'This
broken lead heart will not melt in the furnace. We must throw it away.' So they
threw it on a dust-heap where the dead Swallow was also lying.
'Bring me the two most precious things in the city,' said God to one of His
Angels; and the Angel brought Him the leaden heart and the dead bird.
'You have rightly chosen,' said God,'for in my garden of Paradise this little
bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall
praise me.'
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