"The Happy Prince who had lived a happy life and died a happy man is now immortalized high above the city as a golden and bejeweled statue. For the first time the royal sees the suffering poverty and misery of the common people. Sharing his sympathetic view with a sparrow the prince persuades the bird to postpone its migration and instead to deliver his gold leafing his sapphire eyes and ruby belt to those who need them."
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