I have never yet told this story. The companions who met me on my return were well content to see me alive. I was sad, but I told them: "I am tired."Now my sorrow is comforted a little. That is to say― not entirely. But I know that he did go back to his planet, because I did not find his body at daybreak. It was not such a heavy body... and at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells...
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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.
At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully..." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.
It was then that the fox appeared.
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！
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。
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。
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...