The boys played in the garden, and the youngest had on his breast a golden star, which the Tree had worn on its happiest evening. Now that was past, and the Tree’s life was past, and the story is past too: past! past!—and that's the way with all stories.
Drengene legede i gården, og den mindste havde paa brystet guldstjernen, som træet havde båret sin lykkeligste aften; nu var den forbi, og træet var forbi og historien med; forbi, forbi, og det bliver alle historier!