The story begins with a young student who is lamenting in his garden because the love of his life will dance with him in the ball only if he brings her a red rose but there is no red rose in his garden. The Nightingale, living in the oak-tree of his garden, hears the young man crying over his helplessness and lamenting the fact that all his learning is useless since it cannot win him a girl’s love. The nightingale comes to know that the young man is weeping for a red rose. She feels the pain of that boy and wants to help him.
The
bird flies and goes to the various bushes but cannot find a red rose.
Finally she comes to know about a way of getting a red rose by a tree.
She performs a suicidal act while singing with his heart on the thorn,
giving her heart’s blood to a white rose which turns it in to a
beautiful red rose. In this process the Nightingale dies.
When the
student wakes up, he sees the red rose under his window, plucks it
joyously and brings it to his love. The girl rejects the rose by saying
that it will not match her blue dress and someone else has brought her
jewels that are worth more than a rose. The boy throws the rose in the
gutter and a cart runs over it.At the end he decides that logic is better than love and love is unrealistic. He goes back to his home and starts reading a book.
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