Excerpt from Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince, and Other Tales; Lord Arthur Saville's Crime, and Other Prose Pieces He looks just like an angel, ' said the Charity Children as they came out of the cathedral in their bright scarlet cloaks and their clean white pinafores. How do you know? Said the Mathematical Master, you have never seen one.' Ah But we have, in our dreams, ' answered the children; and the Mathematical Master frowned and looked very severe, for he did not approve of children dreaming. One night there flew over the city a little Swallow. His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stayed behind, for he was in love with the most beautiful Reed. He had met her early in the spring as he was flying down the river after a big yellow moth, and had been so attracted by her slender waist that he had stopped to talk to her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.