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A present is chiefly a fragment, a token

of affection and love.

And then there is the strong pleasure of giving

a visible proof of unbroken

kindness and more

But, the interchanging pleasure apart

and discounted

A ring is a token of marriage; a book

of the spirit that made it.

and a present of love.

But the marriage is more than the ring

and the mind than the book.