little prince again

The little prince said "People, start out in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush around in circles..."
And he added:

"It is not worth the trouble..."

The well that we had come to was not like the wells of the Sahara. The wells of the Sahara are mere holes dug in the sand. This one was like a well in a village. But there was no village here, and I thought I must be dreaming...

"It is strange," I said to the little prince. "Everything is ready: the pulley, the bucket, and the rope..."

He laughed, graspped the rope, and set the pulley working. And the pulley moaned, like an old weathervane which the wind is ganna sleep a long time.

"Hear that?" said the little prince. "We have wakened the well, and it is singing..."

I did not want him to tire himself with the rope.

"Let me do that," I said. "It is too heavy for you."

I hoisted the bucket slowly to the edge of the well and set it there-- happy, tired as I was, over my achievement. The song of the pulley was still in my ears, and I could see the sunlight shimmer in the still trembling water.

"I am thirsty for that water," said the little prince. "Let me drink some..."

And I understood what he had been looking for.

I raised the bucket to his lips. He drank, his eyes closed. It was as sweet as a feast. This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It did the heart good, like a present. When I was a little boy, the Christmas tree lights, the music of the Midnight Mass, the tenderness of people smiles, made up the same way, so, the whole radiance of Christmas presents I received.

"People where you live," said the little prince, "grow five thousand roses in one garden-- and they do not find in it what they are looking for."

"They do not find it," I replied.

"And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water."

"Yes, that is true," I said.

And the little prince added:

"But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart..."