< McClure's Magazine < Volume 7 < Number 2

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.

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