Many people have had a go at it. Ever since Oscar Wilde published The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888, at least thirty versions have been made by composers, dramatists, and choreographers of the title story about a statue of a dead prince which is ‘befriended’ by a swallow that misses its flock’s flight to Egypt.
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