《夜莺与玫瑰》是英国作家王尔德所著的童话作品，以下提供该故事的原文（节选）及中文译文。
原文（节选）
"She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses," cried the young Student; "but in all my garden there is no red rose."
From his couch of mossy green, where he was dreaming over many a quaint and pretty thing, he sprang up and ran through the garden like a madman. He looked for white roses, and found their delicate buds like snow-drops on every bush. He looked for yellow roses, and saw them smiling in the sunshine, their heads nodding gently to the breeze. But for a red rose—no! There was not a single red rose in his garden.
He looked round the bed of daffodils, and asked, "Will you give me a red rose?"
"No, indeed," answered the Daffodils; "and for this reason, among others, being a Rose is our proud distinction."
Then he asked of the Lilies, and they expressed themselves quite as disdainfully. The Poppies were bright, but they were very unwilling; the Peonies were more than usually silent and demure. Each one of them replied to his earnest suit with the same refusal.
"How happy I am!" cried the Nightingale. "I have found at last what the poet sings about—'Love that is pure, love that never alters.' It is better even than my own love. What joy it must be to press those lips to one's own in such a kiss as that!"
中文译文（节选）
“她说，假如我送给她红玫瑰，她就愿意与我共舞，”年轻的学生大声说道，“可是在我的花园里，连一朵红玫瑰也没有。”
他从绿色的青苔上跳下来，在那里他曾梦见过许多稀奇古怪的事情。他穿过花园，像一个疯子似地跑着。他寻找着白玫瑰，可发现它们都像雪珠似的只是些花蕾。他寻找着黄玫瑰，可找到的只有些在微风中点头微笑的含苞待放的蔷薇。不过，要找到一朵红玫瑰——那可真是不容易。他的花园里根本没有红玫瑰。
他又转向那些郁金香，问她们：“你们能给我一朵红玫瑰吗？”
郁金香回答说：“不，真的不能，我们是很骄傲的一种花儿。”
于是他又向百合花求助，但她们回答得更加傲慢。就连平时愿意施舍一些的牡丹也拒绝了他的请求。每一种花儿都有理由拒绝他，每一种花儿都拿出了自己的傲气。
“我多么幸福啊！”夜莺大声唱道，“我终于找到了我所要找的东西——‘纯洁的爱，它从不改变心意’。为了它的幸福，我愿牺牲一切。这要比被爱更加幸福。吻一下那朵红玫瑰，然后死去，谁能够说这不是一件快乐的事呢？”
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