A Dream...

A daughter of a wealthy man fell in love with a handsome youth. The girl proposed him one day.

The young man felt gay and said to her,

"So joyous I feel but I have nothing such of a token of love worthy of your beauty. Given sometime, I will surely earn a piece of diamond and win your hand with a gift of that kind."

Then on the man began toiling and started turning every stone on the way to keep his oath to have a piece of diamond. Years passed by and he really succeeded. But what followed was a wonder. 

Looking at the diamond he was so thrilled and bewitched that he forgot all about his love and promises and went on filling up those glittering stones one after another, giving up rest and respite, until one moonlit night he found himself at the top of a hill made up of diamonds and below, was a beaming brook gliding by, by which that beautiful girl filling water in her pitcher and singing a song of her lost dream.

The forgotten love and promise flashed in his mind. He, in a haste, started staggering down the hill; but alas! when he descended and stood by the stream there was no living being but the shadow of his own!