The Greatest Gifts Are Those That Cost Us Least

Music: Fugue in A Major. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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The greatest gifts are those that cost us least: Price varies inversely with true worth. Life itself's a free gift of the earth Born of ecstatic joy in plant and beast. What more exquisite present than a bower Of wild roses in adolescent bloom? Yet all that vivid color and perfume Exist to serve the interests of the flower. Love is such a gift. One trusts its treasure, Free as the strange bright outbursts of a bird, Equally uncanny and absurd, Comes not from sweat or sacrifice, but pleasure. I'm grateful for the gift you bought. But do Remember that the greatest gift is you.