Valentine card
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card
Measurements
102 x 73 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748057
Summary
Greetings Card - Valentine single sided. Front: Embossed green border with pink and white flowers. Verse: Inside the border on a white back ground with green text 'THE LOCK OF HSAIR. I craved that I might ever wear, When distant from thy voice and view, A pledge of love and friendship too - A lock of hair. The pledge was given - I hold it still, It still posses charms for me, As when first given - and ever will, While thought is free. Those happy moments, false as fair, Which told of joys (and I believed), "Tis true are fled since I received, This lock of hair. No change affections pledge hath known, The auburn ringlet still to me, A friendly mournful sign shall be, Of pleasures flown ; - And when the worlds illusive glare, Shall tempt to joys that ne'er shall be, To prove tis false, I'll gaze on thee, Sweet lock of hair! Birmingham: Menon & Co's Copyright.'