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The Gift

Louis V. Ledoux

Let others give you wealth and love,
 And guard you while you live;
I cannot set my gift above
 The gifts that others give.

And yet the gift I give is good:
 In one man’s eyes to see
The worship of your maidenhood
 While children climb your knee.

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