Then she gave one last burst of music. The white moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it, and it trembled all over with ecstasy, and opened its petals to the cold morning air. Echo bore it to her purple cavern in the hills, and woke the sleeping shepherds from their dreams. It floated through the reeds of the river, and they carried its message to the sea.

  "Look, look!" cried the tree, "the rose is finished now;" but the nightingale made not answer, for she was lying dead in the long grass, with the thorn in her heart. And at noon the student opened his window and looked out.

 "Why, what a wonderful piece of luck!" He cried; "here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name;" and he leaned down and plucked it. Then he put on his hat, and ran up to the professor’s house with the rose in his hand.

 

 

【词汇简析】

burst n. 爆发

linger v. 徘徊，逗留

ecstasy n. 狂喜，出神

reed n. 芦苇

pluck v. 摘