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对我来讲，这是天下上最美也是最苦楚的风景。它与前面某页的插画一样。但我还是在这里重画一次，以便加深你们的影象。就是在这里，小王子呈现在地球上，厥后，也恰是在这里消逝了的。

我还从未讲过这个故事。火伴们得知我返航，都为我活着返来而欢畅。我很哀痛。但是，我奉告他们：“我只是有点累。”

This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page, but I have drawn it again to impress it on your memory. It is here that the little prince appeared on Earth, and disappeared.

Here, then, is a great mystery. For you who also love the little prince, and for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, we do not know where, a sheep that we never saw has― yes or no― eaten a rose...

It was then that the fox appeared.

现在，我获得了稍许安抚，就是说……还没有完整安静下来。我晓得他已经返回了他的星球上。因为那天拂晓，我没有找到他的身躯。实在他的身躯并不那么重……今后，我就喜幸亏夜间聆听星星的笑声，仿佛是能听到五亿个铃铛的响声……有件事情很首要。我给小王子画的羊嘴套上，忘了加上皮带！他不成能把它套在羊嘴上。偶然，我会想：“他的星球会产生甚么事呢？大抵小绵羊把花吃掉了吧……”

请你们细心看看这个处所，以便你们有一天去非洲戈壁上观光的时候，能够精确地辨认出这个处所。如果你们达到这个处所，我要求你们不要仓促而过，请你们就在那颗星星底劣等一等！如果这时有个小孩子呈现，他笑着，他有金黄色的头发，他回绝答复题目，你必然会猜得出他是谁。如果这些产生了，请给我些安抚。不要让我如此哀痛：给我写封信，奉告我他返来了。

And now six years have already gone by...

Look at it carefully so that you will be sure to recognise it in case you travel some day to the African desert. And, if you should come upon this spot, please do not hurry on. Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.