What Is The Greatest Gift by Mary Oliver

Is your partner your number one priority? Do you care about them more than anyone else? Even yourself? Then, What Is The Greatest Gift by Mary Oliver is the wedding reading for you. This wedding reading discusses what the greatest gift in the whole world is. The poem answers that question, by saying that the greatest gift is the fact that humans can care for, think about and love someone else more than themselves. If you’re someone who has struggled to find that one person you put above all else but you’ve finally found them (and are marrying them), then this would be the perfect wedding reading. Ultimately, the greatest gift is love! If you’d like to have this wedding reading at your ceremony, then download this free PDF! 

What Is The Greatest Gift?

by Mary Oliver

What is the greatest gift?
Could it be the world itself — the oceans, the meadowlark,
the patience of the trees in the wind?
Could it be love, with its sweet clamour of passion?

Something else — something else entirely
holds me in thrall.
That you have a life that I wonder about
more than I wonder about my own.
That you have a life — courteous, intelligent —
that I wonder about more than I wonder about my own.
That you have a soul — your own, no one else's —
that I wonder about more than I wonder about my own.
So that I find my soul clapping its hands for yours
more than my own.

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