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1、TheRoseElf玫瑰花精In the midst of a garden there grew a rose bush, quite covered with roses, and in the most beautiful of them all there lived an elf-an elf so tiny that no mortal eye could see him. But he was as well made and as perfect as any child could be, and he had wings reaching from his shoulder
2、s to his feet. Behind each petal of the rose he had a tiny bedroom. Oh, how fragrant his rooms were, and how bright and transparent the walls, for they were the beautiful pale pink petals of the rose! All day long the little elf rejoiced in the warm sunshine as he flew from flower to flower or dance
3、d on the wings of the fluttering butterflies and measured how many steps he would have to take to pass along all the roads and paths on a single linden leaf. You see, what we call the veins on a leaf were highroads and byways to him. It was a long journey, and he had begun it rather late, so before
4、he finished, the sun had gone down!It turned very cold, dew fell, and the wind blew, so now it was high time he went home. He hurried as fast as he could, but to his dismay he found that the rose had closed its petals for the night! Not a single rose stood open! He couldnt get in! Now, the poor litt
5、le rose elf was terribly frightened, for he had never been out at night before; he had always slumbered sweetly and safely behind the warm rose petals. This would surely be the death of him!Suddenly he remembered that at the other end of the garden there was an arbor of lovely honeysuckle, those flo
6、wers which looked like big painted horns. In one of them, perhaps, he could go down and sleep safely till morning.Swiftly he flew to the far end of the garden. But suddenly he stopped! Quiet! There were already two people in the arbor. The loveliest maiden and a handsome young man. They sat closely
7、together and wished they might never, never part. They loved each other, even more than the best child can love its father and mother.Yet we must part, the young man was saying. Your brother doesnt like me, so he is sending me on a long journey, far over distant mountains and oceans. Farewell, my sw
8、eetest bride, for that you will always be to me!Then they kissed, and the young maiden wept and gave him a rose. But first she pressed on it a kiss so warm and tender that the rose petals opened, and then the little elf slipped quickly inside. As he leaned his tiny head against the delicate, fragran
9、t walls, he could hear, Farewell! Farewell! and he felt that the rose was being placed on the young mans heart. Ah, how that heart beat! The little elf couldnt go to sleep for its beating!But not long did the rose rest undisturbed on that throbbing heart. As the young man walked lonely through the d
10、ark wood he took the rose out and kissed it so often and so warmly that the little elf was almost crushed. Through the petals he could feel the young mans burning lips, while the rose itself opened as if under the strongest midday sun.Suddenly another man appeared. It was the pretty maidens gloomy a
11、nd wicked brother! He drew out a long sharp knife, and while the young man was kissing the rose, this wicked one stabbed him to death! Then he cut off the head and buried head and body in the soft earth beneath the linden tree.Now hes dead and forgotten! the evil brother thought. Hell never come bac
12、k again. He was supposed to have left on a long journey where a man might easily lose his life-and so he has lost his. No, he wont come back, and my sister wont ever dare ask me about him. Then he kicked dry leaves over the loose earth and went home in the darkness of the night.But he was not alone,
13、 as he thought. The little elf was with him. For, as he dug the grave, a dried, rolled-up linden leaf had fallen in his hair, and the rose elf was in that leaf. Now the mans hat was placed over the leaf, and it was very dark in there where the little elf trembled in fear and anger at the wicked deed
14、.In the early morning, the evil man reached home. He took off his hat and went into his sisters bedroom. There lay the pretty maiden, dreaming of her beloved, whom she thought far away traveling over mountains and through the forests. The wicked brother leaned over her and laughed-the hideous laugh
15、of a devil-and the withered leaf dropped from his hair onto her bed cover. But he didnt notice, and pretty soon he left her room to get a little sleep himself.Now the little elf crept quietly out of the withered leaf, slipped into the ear of the sleeping girl, and told her, as in a dream, the dreadf
16、ul story of the murder. He described the spot in the woods where her brother had killed her sweetheart, and the place under the linden tree where the body was buried, and then whispered, And so that you may not think this all a dream, you will find a withered leaf of the tree on your bedspread! And when she awoke she found the leaf.Oh, what bitter, bitter tears she shed! Yet to no one did she dare betray her grief. All that day her window sto
