The story concludes with the swallow dying at the feet of the Happy Prince. The Happy Prince is also taken down when the Mayor and the Town Councillors decide that he is no longer the beautiful statue he once was. After the Happy Prince is taken down, the Mayor and his Councillors decide that another statue must take his place. However, neither the Mayor nor each of the Councillors can come to an agreement about who the next statue will resemble.
Meanwhile, the town has the Happy Prince melted down, but they discover that his broken, leaden heart will not melt in the furnace. So, the workmen at the foundry discard the leaden heart in a dust-heap, next to the carcass of the dead swallow. The narrator then tells us that when God asks one of his angels to bring Him the two most precious things in the city, the angel brings him the leaden heart and the dead swallow. When he receives the two, God proclaims that the angel has rightly chosen. He then says that the swallow will sing forever in His garden in Paradise, and the Happy Prince will always praise Him in His city of gold.
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