THE PHOENIX BIRD
1872
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
THE PHOENIX BIRD
by Hans Christian Andersen
IN the Garden of Paradise, beneath the Tree of Knowledge,
bloomed a rose bush. Here, in the first rose, a bird was born. His
flight was like the flashing of light, his plumage was beauteous,
and his song ravishing. But when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree
of knowledge ...