"The Gift" is the second track that appears on White Light/White Heat, the 1968 second album by The Velvet Underground. The song is over eight minutes long and mixed in such a way that a short story can be heard in the left speaker, while a rock instrumental is heard on the right.
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“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit.”
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“O passionately at peace when will that tide draw shoreward,”
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