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McClure's Magazine/Volume 7/Number 2/Gifts

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Published in July 1896, p.126.

164106McClure's Magazine, Volume 8, Number 2 — GiftsGertrude Hall

Far better than a great gift granted,
  Is, to my thought,
A little gift not asked, not wanted,
  From one that owes one naught.

Had I the giving of some great gift,
  It should be spent
On one with never a hope to lift
  To aught so magnificent.