Captive Memories

" My Valentine is old and worn,

It's freshness lost, it's fragrance shorn;

But still it holds some little part

Of the warm love within my heart.

What matters if it's perfumed dress

Has lost it's pristine daintiness ;

The words, though old, are ever new

That bear the message, " I love you. "

  -  T. J. White ( Captive Memories ", 1897 )