The Heart and The Rose

Vintage embossed Valentines Day postcard from the turn of the last century. 
Postmark Renovo PA, Feb. 15 1909

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William Butler Yeats (1892)

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,

The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,

The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould,

Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

The wrong of unshapely things, is a wrong too great to be told;

I hunger to build them anew, and sit on a green knoll apart,

With the earth and the sky and the water, re-made like a casket of gold

For my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.