The speaker wishes he could D. Invite someone to his home for Christmas. This is reflected in the lines where he expresses a desire to send a Christmas tree along with his well wishes for a Merry Christmas, implying a longing for connection and the spirit of the season.
Based on lines 59-61, what does the speaker wish he could do?
A. Send a Christmas tree by mail.
B. Write a letter to the buyer.
C. Calculate the total value of his trees.
D. Invite someone to his home for Christmas.
“A thousand Christmas trees!—at what apiece?”
He felt some need of softening that to me:
“A thousand trees would come to thirty dollars.”
Then I was certain I had never meant
To let him have them. Never show surprise!
But thirty dollars seemed so small beside
The extent of pasture I should strip, three cents
(For that was all they figured out apiece),
Three cents so small beside the dollar friends
I should be writing to within the hour
Would pay in cities for good trees like those,
Regular vestry-trees whole Sunday Schools
Could hang enough on to pick off enough.
A thousand Christmas trees I didn’t know I had!
Worth three cents more to give away than sell,
As may be shown by a simple calculation.
Too bad I couldn’t lay one in a letter.
I can’t help wishing I could send you one,
In wishing you herewith a Merry Christmas.
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