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A PARK LONDON
A hand-coloured lithographed valentine card with central picture of a lady with cupid who is pointing his arrow towards a gentleman sitting under a rose bush, verse reads 'Happy the state, when souls congenial burn/With mutual fires, and love for love return./When each new day Love's growing charms beholds/New bliss imparts, and new delights unfolds./When rob'd in truth, and softness void of art/The Lovers feel the tender, constant heart:/Then Bless descends - love's sweetest rapturs warm -/Peace beams around - and fled is each alarm' - 10 x 8in., circa 1840
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A hand-coloured lithographed valentine card with central picture of a lady with cupid who is pointing his arrow towards a gentleman sitting under a rose bush, verse reads 'Happy the state, when souls congenial burn/With mutual fires, and love for love return./When each new day Love's growing charms beholds/New bliss imparts, and new delights unfolds./When rob'd in truth, and softness void of art/The Lovers feel the tender, constant heart:/Then Bless descends - love's sweetest rapturs warm -/Peace beams around - and fled is each alarm' - 10 x 8in., circa 1840
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