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From the book The Quiver of Love: A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern, a collection of love poems published in 1876, illustrated by Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway (source). The illustration was created for "The Surprise", a translation of a German poem by Heinrich Heine (source: Google Play eBook edition page 44, 45). It reads:

THE SURPRISE

I dreamt I saw you yesternight,
And claspt my hands about your eyes,
Nor dared to venture in your sight
Until you pardoned the surprise.

So take my letter, Valentine,
My name and mission quickly guess —
I fear to offer word or sign;
I wait until you whisper "Yes."
Link to eBook edition.
Date 1876
date QS:P571,+1876-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
British Library HMNTS 11651.g.2.
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Image extracted from page 45 of The Quiver of Love. A collection of Valentines ancient and modern. With illustrations, in colors, ... by W. Crane and Kate Greenaway, by . Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.

This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.

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