Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-13
VALENTINE.

He Comes Around Tomorrow.
Little maiden, dOst thou pine
For faithful Valentinc:
Art thou scanning timidly
Every face that meets thine eve:
Art thou faneyinS there may be-
Fairer face than thou dost see:
Little maiden, scholar mine.
WOuldSt thou have u Valentine:
Go and ask, my little child,
Ask the Neither undefiled:
Ask, for she will draw thee near,
And will whisper in thine ear
Valentine the name is good,
For 1t comes OF lineage high
And famous family,
And 1t tells of gentle blood.
Noble blood, and, nObler still,
For its owner freely poured
Every drop there was to spill
In the quarrel OF his Lord.
Valentine! know the name,
Many ma rty yrs bear the same,
And they stand in glittering ring
10 und their warrior God anu King,
Who before and for them bled,
with their robes of ruby reel,
And their swords of cherub flame.
Yes, there Is plenty here
knights without reproach or fear!
such st. DenyS, such ST. George,
Martin, Maurice. Theodore,
And II hundred thousand more.
GuerdOn gained and warfare DER.
by that sea without surge,
And beneath the eternal sky.
And the beatific Sun
In Jerusalem above:
Valentine Is every one.
ChOOs.. from out that company
Whom to serve and whom to love.
They are of innumerable Sizes as they
have been in former years, but the pref
tiest among those of moderate dimensions
have for backgroud solid mass of violets,
apple blossoms or pansies, upon which lie
gilt panel with picture of a girl, and i
label inscribed with sundry verses, 1efer-
ring to the flowers and interpreting. the
supposed feelings of the sender, unless, i'll
deed, he be skilled with the pen and
chooses to buy a card with blank label
rather than to say:
"ViOlets are blue.
Loves eyes are bluer
know, know:
Some mems hearts are true.
Mails hearts are truer.
Ills so, It's SO.''
Saucy girls who wish to tease 4 lover,
even while sending him token of alice
tion, might like the gray cards upon which
shine golden hearts almost covered By
dainty buttOn-hOle bouquets of carnation
and Lady Pollock geranium tied in true
blue ribbon. The poem, printed in bright
brown letters on either side OF the design.
says:
Girls should DO modest, they say:
Still, Oh st. Valentines Day
suppose young maid may
Offer II tiny bouquet
And not wander tar astray
From perfection.
Only leaf and q pink
Surely at that one may wink;
l am still safe on the brink,
Since have not said, l think,
That you are yourself the pink
OfpcrfectiOn.
Among the sets of cards the pretticSr
are six representing flowers against Il
square panel of blue sky. The dan,ielion
is grouped with it's dentated leaves and
with one blossom that is in the ghost-Iike
state called witching out the buttercupis
tied up with 4 grass blossom the daisies
stand by themselves, and the yellow rose
is relieved by it's own dark leaves. The
blending of cOlOrs in these cards is very
striking, and apart from their notices
they will be priced by those who receive
them. The fifth and sixth cards in the
| series represent the jasmine and its
pink-tipped buds, and the amaryllis, and
are beautiful in grouping, although less
attractive than the other four. The most
expensive American valentines are Il set OF
four containing eight pages each; the cover,
which is stiff, has the Inscription appro-
pirate for the day OH it's first page the val
| entine itself has a poem printed in carmne
on the pink damask ground on its inner
pages, and an effectionate motto entwined
with lilies and viOlets on the last leaf the
first page differs, being sometimes clusters
of roses lying on Il disk of gold; sometimes
pansies on a golden heart; sometimes chry
santhemum and sweet william.