IN EARLY CHRISTIAN HOME.
February night and morn Dragged their weary sequence by; When the fourteenth day was born, Valentine was doomed to die. Prison walls are chill and gray To assuage a man’s despair, But he wore the hours away Fashioning with utmost care Paper heart and rose and dove— M riting on each one a line Burning bright with faith and love, Signing each, “Your Valentine.” On the day he came to die For a faith he would not yield, Thus to his dear lady’s eye M as his breaking heart revealed. And a February day Was fof ever set apart, W hen a lover dares to say All that smoulders in his heart. —Ylarie Grimes, in Kaleidoscope.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 66
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120IN EARLY CHRISTIAN HOME. Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 66
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