这个<<荆棘鸟>>中的经典卷首语怎么翻译成英语呢

There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in his life,more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth.From the moment it leaves the nest it searchs for a thorn tree,and does not rest until it has found one.Then,singing among the savage branches,it impales itself upon the largest ,sharpest spine.And,dying,it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale.One superlative song,existence the price.But the whole world stills to listen,and God in His Heaven smiles.For the best is only bought at the lost of great pain....Or so says the legend.

真的是很不错的序言!
P.S.读过这本书，而且上面的文字是出自作者原版的,尊重原著的角度,我想也是最好的答案!

“In the fable has one kind of thorn bird, the life only sings one time, that singing sound possesses all lives the world in the singing sound to be all more exquisite than interestingly to listen to.From leaves the lair that moment, she on is seeking the thorn tree, until achieved wishes.Then, she grips long own body, the point