In "the gift of the magi," the gifts that the characters give each other are ironic because a the gifts are expensive and the characters should not have purchased them b it seems that each character is trying to buy a better gift than the other character c the characters were unable to buy what they really wanted their spouses to have, so the gifts they gave are the second choice gifts d the gifts are meant to be used with the other person’s most prized possession, which they sold in order to buy for each other

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,

answer: the gettysburg address is a speech delivered by abraham lincoln at the november 19, 1863, dedication of soldier’s national cemetery, a cemetery for union soldiers killed at the battle of gettysburg during the american civil war.

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