But at another time I say to myself: "At some moment or other one is absent-minded, and that is enough! On some one evening he forgot the glass globe, or the sheep got out, without making any noise, in the night..." And then the little bells are changed to tears...
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。
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...
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.
每想到这时，我对本身说：“绝对不会的！小王子每天夜里都用玻璃罩子罩住他的花，并且他会把羊把守好的……”想到这类环境，我就非常欢畅。天上统统的星星也都轻柔地笑着。
偶然，我也很忐忑：“人偶然不免会忽视的，有一次结果就很难预感！如果某一天早晨他忘了罩玻璃罩子，或者小绵羊夜里不声不响地跑出来……”想到这里，小铃铛都变成泪珠了！
望着天空，问问你们本身：绵羊究竟是吃了还是没有吃掉花？那么你们就会发明所看到的统统都变了样……任何一个大人将永久不会明白这个题目竟如此首要！
这真是非常奇异。对你们这些也喜好小王子的人来讲，就像我一样，不管在宇宙的甚么处所，在某处我们不晓得的处所，有一只我们永久也见不到的绵羊，吃掉了，或者没有吃掉一朵玫瑰，统统都会截然分歧。
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。”