Happy Valentine's Day

                           Valentine’s Day

   This one’s for you.  Valentine, that is.  Forget the roses and the candy, all we need are kind and loving words.   Such as:
“Consider not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver”
                           Ellye Howell Glover(1907) taken from With Love and Affection by Pat Ross
   It is always best to give of your own production or discovery.  For instance these treasures saved from other Valentine’s Day.

     From an old book of poetry entitled “The New Home Book of Best Loved Poems” edited by Richard Charlton MacKenzie comes this jewel.
   If You’re Ever Going To Love Me
If you’re ever going to love me love me now, while I can know
All the sweet and tender feelings  which from real affection flow.
Love me now, while I am living; do not wait till I am gone
And then chisel it in marble-warm love words on ice-cold stone.
If you’ve dear sweet thoughts about me, why not whisper them to me?
Don’t you know ‘twould make me happy and as glad as glad could be?
   This is just a part of this piece written anonymously.

   Another gem from this same volume is  “Will You Love Me When I’m Old”
I would ask of you, my darling,
      A question soft and low,
That gives me many a heartache
  As the moments come and go.

Your love I know is truthful,
  But the truest love grows cold;
It is this that I would ask you:
  Will you love me when I’m old?

Life’s morn will soon be waning,
  And its evening bells be tolled,
But my heart shall know no sadness,
 If you’ll love me when I’m old.

From Pat Ross' book, With Love And Affection

Down the stream of life together
  We are sailing side by side,
Hoping some bright day to anchor
  Safe beyond the surging tide.
Today our sky is cloudless,
  But the night may clouds unfold;
But, though storms may gather round us,
  Will you love me when I’m old?

When my hair shall shade the snowdrift,
  And mine eyes shall dimmer grow,
I would lean upon some loved one,
Through the valley as I go.
I would claim of you a promise,
  Worth to me a world of gold;
It is only this, my darling,
  That you’ll love me when I’m old.
                            Anonymous


 Oh, go ahead and enjoy your chocolate