👑 ❄ 🐛 A musician of more ambition than talent composed an elegy at
🕺 ❄ 🌸 the death of composer Edward MacDowell. She played the elegy for the
🚙 ❄ 📕 pianist Josef Hoffman, then asked his opinion. "Well, it's quite
👃 ❄ 🎽 nice," he replied, but don't you think it would be better if..."
😺 ❄ 🍖 "If what?" asked the composer.
🍧 ❄ 👽 "If ... if you had died and MacDowell had written the elegy?" 🎁🐠🎽

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