双语故事:仙女的的礼物
In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket,and said:"Here are gifts. Take one, leave the others,And be wary,choose wisely!For only one of them is valuable." The gifts were five: Fame, Love, Riches, Pleasure, Death.The youth, said, eagerly:"There is no need to consider"; and he chose Pleasure. He went out into the world and sought out the pleasures that youth delights in . But each in its turn was short-liyed and disappointing, vain and empty; and each, departing, mocked him .In the end he said:"These years i have wasted.If i could but choose again, I would choose wisely." The fairy appeared, and said:"Four of the gifts remain.choose once more: and oh, remember--time is flying, and only one of them is precious." The man considered long,then chose Love;and did not mark the tears that rose in the fairy's eyes.After many,many years the man sat by a coffin,in an empty home.And he communed with himself,saying:"One by one they have gone away and leftme;and now she lies here,the dearest and the last.Desolation after desolation has swept over me;but each hour of happiness the treacherous trader,Love,sold me i have paid a thousand hours of grief!Out of my heart of hearts i curse him!" |