The Nightingale (11) [The Nightingale]
The Nightingale (11)
When it was wound up, it could sing the piece the real bird sang, and moved its tail up and down, and glittered with silver and gold.
Round its neck was a little velvet collar on which was written, ' The Nightingale of the Emperor of Japan is nothing compared to that of the Emperor of China.
" This is magnificent ! " they all said, and the man who had brought the clockwork bird received on the spot the title of Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale.
" Now they must sing together ; what a duet we shall have ! "
And so they sang together, but their voices did not blend, for the real Nightingale sang in her way and the clockwork bird sang
waltzes.
" It is not its fault ! " declared the bandmaster ; " it keeps very good time and is quite after my style. "
(11/21)
When it was wound up, it could sing the piece the real bird sang, and moved its tail up and down, and glittered with silver and gold.
Round its neck was a little velvet collar on which was written, ' The Nightingale of the Emperor of Japan is nothing compared to that of the Emperor of China.
" This is magnificent ! " they all said, and the man who had brought the clockwork bird received on the spot the title of Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale.
" Now they must sing together ; what a duet we shall have ! "
And so they sang together, but their voices did not blend, for the real Nightingale sang in her way and the clockwork bird sang
waltzes.
" It is not its fault ! " declared the bandmaster ; " it keeps very good time and is quite after my style. "
(11/21)
2015-06-07 16:00
nice!(3)
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いや、もう、嬉しいです。
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