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VICTORIAN CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC VALENTINES
Two chromolithographic cards with elaborate oriental borders, one centre depicting a wedding scene, the other of a young lady staring wistfully out to sea, both with verses, one verse reads 'By absence Gentle youth from thee/Why do I long in solitude to be?/Why from the innocent delights of home/Am I estranged preferring still to roam Through the hushed woodland or the lonely vale/Or the bleak solitary hill to scale?/Why am I prone some jutting rock to choose/Where I may sit there unnoticed muse?/What would this love of loneliness reveal What but the passion which for thee I feel/Yes, all my solitary thoughts are thine/As I confess in this my Valentine', 10 x 8in., c. 1840; and another. (3)
Two chromolithographic cards with elaborate oriental borders, one centre depicting a wedding scene, the other of a young lady staring wistfully out to sea, both with verses, one verse reads 'By absence Gentle youth from thee/Why do I long in solitude to be?/Why from the innocent delights of home/Am I estranged preferring still to roam Through the hushed woodland or the lonely vale/Or the bleak solitary hill to scale?/Why am I prone some jutting rock to choose/Where I may sit there unnoticed muse?/What would this love of loneliness reveal What but the passion which for thee I feel/Yes, all my solitary thoughts are thine/As I confess in this my Valentine', 10 x 8in., c. 1840; and another. (3)