LOVE

 
LOVE
 
and two love birds on a rope,
holding a garland of flowers
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

wreath with heart image,
with words:

Unchanging
Love

 
 
 
 
 
 

THOUGH ABSENCE PARTS
US FOR AWHILE,
AND DISTANCE ROLLS BETWEEN,
BELIEVE, WHOEVER MAY
REVILE,
I'M STILL WHAT I HAVE BEEN.

FOR TO MY DYING DAY
MY HEART,
THRO' EVERY FATE WILL BE,
IF DOOM'D TILL THEN TO
MOURN APART,
UNCHANGING STILL TO THEE.

 
 
 
 
 

CONSTANCY

 

Signed: "T.STEVENS     COVENTRY." on back at top turn-over:

Stevens logo on the reverse top turnover of this bookmark

Godden records this design as having been registered on 15 November 1862, but there is no woven registration mark anywhere on the bookmark.