A Gift to Last

I can still remember the theme song to the special and later the series, also written by Gordon Pinsent I believe, a very touching song I felt was about clinging to a past that no longer exists, peopled with children who are gone. The song tore my heart out when I first heard it and does still. I was terribly homesick at the time and the words "to one with shining eyes and tender years, who I'll be holding to my heart and never leaving" made me want to walk the thousand miles home. Although I think of this as a sad story, it seems to me that some of it was very funny. The Canadian actors were pretty good. I think the end of the series was sad though. Wish I could see this again.