lirik lagu oscar wilde feat. basil rathbone - the selfish giant
every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the giant’s garden.
it was a large lovely garden, with soft green gr-ss.
here and there over the gr-ss stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit.
the birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. ‘
how happy we are here!’ they cried to each other.
one day the giant came back.
he had been to visit his friend the cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years.
after the seven years were over he had said all that he had to say, for his conversation was limited, and he determined to return to his own castle.
when he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden.
what are you doing here?’ he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away.
my own garden is my own garden,’ said the giant; ‘any one can understand that, and i will allow n-body to play in it but myself.’ so he built a high wall all round it, and put up a notice-board.
tresp-ssers
will be
prosecuted
he was a very selfish giant.
the poor children had now nowhere to play.
they tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of hard stones, and they did not like it.
they used to wander round the high wall when their lessons were over, and talk about the beautiful garden inside.
how happy we were there,’ they said to each other.
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then the spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds.
only in the garden of the selfish giant it was still winter.
the birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to blossom.
once a beautiful flower put its head out from the gr-ss, but when it saw the notice-board it was so sorry for the children that it slipped back into the ground again, and went off to sleep.
the only people who were pleased were the snow and the frost. ‘
spring has forgotten this garden,’ they cried, ‘so we will live here all the year round.’ the snow covered up the gr-ss with her great white cloak, and the frost painted all the trees silver.
then they invited the north wind to stay with them, and he came.
he was wrapped in furs, and he roared all day about the garden, and blew the chimney-pots down. ‘
this is a delightful spot,’ he said, ‘we must ask the hail on a visit.’ so the hail came.
every day for three hours he rattled on the roof of the castle till he broke most of the slates, and then he ran round and round the garden as fast as he could go.
he was dressed in grey, and his breath was like ice.
i cannot understand why the spring is so late in coming,’ said the selfish giant, as he sat at the window and looked out at his cold white garden; ‘
i hope there will be a change in the weather.’
but the spring never came, nor the summer.
the autumn gave golden fruit to every garden, but to the giant’s garden she gave none. ‘
he is too selfish,’ she said.
so it was always winter there, and the north wind, and the hail, and the frost, and the snow danced about through the trees.
one morning the giant was lying awake in bed when he heard some lovely music.
it sounded so sweet to his ears that he thought it must be the king’s musicians p-ssing by.
it was really only a little linnet singing outside his window, but it was so long since he had heard a bird sing in his garden that it seemed to him to be the most beautiful music in the world.
then the hail stopped dancing over his head, and the north wind ceased roaring, and a delicious perfume came to him through the open cas-m-nt. ‘
i believe the spring has come at last,’ said the giant; and he jumped out of bed and looked out.
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what did he see?
he saw a most wonderful sight.
through a little hole in the wall the children had crept in, and they
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