The Little Prince Page #2

I don't know! Spite, I suppose.

Flowers have thorns just for spite.

I don't believe you.

Flowers are weak and helpless.

How could they face the world without

believing in their thorns' protection?

- What I'm trying to do is important.

- Important?

Flowers have grown thorns

for millions of years.

And for millions of years,

sheep have eaten them just the same!

- You think that's not important?

- It is.

I know one flower that's unique

in all the world. It's on my planet.

But some morning,

a sheep can destroy it with one bite.

- And you think that's not important?

- I suppose so.

What you don't understand is

that if someone loves one flower

that grows on one star among

all the millions of stars in the sky,

it makes him happy to look at the stars.

He can say to himself,

"Somewhere my flower's up there. "

But if the sheep eats the flower,

all the stars will go dark.

And you think that's not important?

It's not a matter

of consequence to you, is it?

Wait!

Wait! Come back!

I most humbly apologise!

I was behaving like a grown-up!

Your flower is very important!

I swear it!

Come back!

Please!

Please come back!

# Where did you go?

# Where, oh, where did you go,

little man?

# Don't you know that I'm on your side?

# Why did you go?

# Why, oh, why did you go, little man?

Let me show you I'm on your side

# This world

# Is an ocean without any shore

When you're on your own

# Dawn is the end of the rope

When you're all alone

# I've been, I've seen, I've known it

# Where can you be?

Where, oh, where can you be?

# Hurry back and you'll see

that I'm on your side

# Where did you run?

# Why, oh, why did you run

From the only one who is on your side?

# Everybody needs a friend

# Come make use of me

# God gave people hands to lend

Mine are free

# So why stay away?

# Come what may

# I'm on your side #

I missed him.

I wished I'd discovered more about him.

But he'd gone

and taken his mystery with him.

Unaccustomed as I am to drawing

anything but boas and elephants,

I decided to make a portrait of him

so I wouldn't forget him.

After all, he was a friend.

And not everyone has a friend.

Least of all me.

I'm hungry.

I have your supper right here.

I waited as long as I could.

I'd advise saving

some of that till tomorrow.

That is, of course,

unless you're very hungry.

Is this all you have?

At the moment, yes.

This will be quite enough, thank you.

Needless to say,

that problem you outlined

concerning the flower, you know?

The one on the star. And your sheep.

In fact, all flowers and all sheep.

That's extremely important.

In fact, I can't think of anything

that's more important.

Well, I've given it a great deal of thought,

and I think I have a solution

that will completely remove your flower

from any possibility of danger.

This is my plan... But this is subject

to your approval, of course.

One:
To draw a muzzle for your sheep.

Two:
If you can describe

your planet to me

in sufficient detail for me

to make a drawing of it,

I'll put up a big strong fence

all around your flower.

Would you really do that?

Smaller.

Smaller.

I have three volcanoes.

- How big are they?

- Very big.

- Compared to you?

- Knee high.

I have to clean them out every day.

- All by yourself?

- There's no one else.

There are three baobab bushes.

You don't have to draw them.

They don't come up for a while.

- Where's your house?

- On the other side. Don't draw it.

My flower lives on this side here.

When she first came

through the ground,

I was afraid she was going to be

a baobab, but then she blossomed.

One bright yellow morning,

she blossomed.

- Good morning.

- Stop!

- What is it?

- Give me a moment to wake up.

I'm sorry.

How beautiful you are.

Yes, I know.

I was born at the same

moment as the sun.

- Did you know that?

- No.

- Did you know you're quite selfish?

- Selfish?

Instead of thinking of my needs,

you're standing there doing

what you want to do, staring at me.

- What is it you need?

- Water!

Water?

I realise this is a small,

unequipped little planet.

I'll get it for you right away.

I brought her some water.

I brought it every day.

I did everything I could for her.

It's cooler when the sun goes down.

Can you put a bowl over me at night?

That will only make you weaker.

The night air is good for you.

I'm cold!

I'm cold!

- You promised me a bowl.

- It's not cold.

- Do you love me?

- Yes, I love you very much.

You've made my planet beautiful.

I don't believe it. If you loved me,

you'd know how cold I am.

The nights aren't long,

and you'll soon get used to it.

- Do you love me?

- I'll get the bowl.

I couldn't understand it,

and I couldn't understand her.

I loved her, but I was so unhappy.

I began to realise I didn't

really understand anything.

So I decided to leave my planet

and go out into the universe

and try to learn something.

I was wrong to leave her, but at the time

I didn't even understand that.

I was too young.

One morning,

I cleaned up my volcanoes,

took one last look for baobabs

and put my planet in order.

- Good morning.

- You're all dressed up.

- Yes.

- You look very handsome.

- Thank you.

- You're going away, aren't you?

- Yes.

- For a long time?

- Perhaps.

- I see.

It's my fault you're going, isn't it?

I've been very foolish, haven't I?

I wonder who will call on me

when you're not here.

There are those two caterpillars.

I don't like them, but one has

to put up with them to meet butterflies.

For anything else, I have my thorns.

Well?

If you're going, go!

Goodbye.

# Be happy, be happy, be happy

# Forget that I have no one

and nowhere to go

# Be happy, be happy, be happy

# Don't think of me in winter

All covered with snow

# Be happy, be happy

# Forget that I'll be crying still

# And never will be happy

# Be happy

# Without you #

- Stop! Where are your papers?

- What papers?

You can't cross the border

without papers.

- What border?

- That border there!

- You need a visa. Do you have one?

- No.

You can't cross it.

Those are the rules. Stop!

You almost backed into another country.

What are you?

A smuggler? A refugee?

- An idealist? Speak up! What are you?

- I'm ignorant.

Well, you might outgrow it.

Now, look.

My country is too small for both of us.

But I have a colonial position to your left.

If your papers are in order,

you can settle there.

Your Majesty, it's such a small planet,

why do you need borders?

Why do we need borders?

Yes. Why do you need borders?

You told me to ask questions.

But any child understands

why we need borders!

- I don't.

- Of course not! You're a child!

# How do you expect you can understand

international things and stuff?

# Scissoring the earth,

carving up the land

# Is the business of kings and stuff

# Continentally, you are mentally

a silly-billy boy of two

# How absurd of you, it's unheard of you

could ever think as grown-ups do

# Why you, why you

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