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High above the city, on a narrow column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. It was covered all over with fine gold leaf. But the prince is no longer happy since he saw the misery of his subjects from his pedestal. When a swallow stopped by him on its way south, he asked her to help the poor. Piece by piece, she picked off the gold and brought it to the needy. Having become grey and ugly, the Happy Prince's only friend is the little swallow... One of the most beautiful translations of the fairy tale, read by master speaker Christian Brückner.