Gram's Valentines Day Cards

A Valentine
Grace Noll Crowell

I found an old, old valentine
Of my mother's yesterday;
An age stained, lacy, lovely thing
That she had put away
Between the covers of a book;
And as I touched it there,
I saw her young and beautiful,
The sunlight on her hair,
The love-light in her dark, young eyes
That years could not destroy:
And through the paper lace there walked
My father as a boy.

Somewhere along the heavenly lanes
Today, their eyes ashine,
I think he asks her once again
To be his valentine.

These are valentines day cards that belonged to my grandmother.