POSTCARD: 'A BIRTHDAY GREETING' YELLOW AND PURPLE FLOWER

Vertical postcard with an image of two flowers, one pale yellow and one light purple. With a dark grey background. In the top right corner in white decorative type reads: 'A / BIRTHDAY / GREETING'. In the bottom right corner there is a poem in a smaller version of the same font which reads: 'MAY SUNSHINE / greet this / HAPPY morn / And shed its / BRIGHTNESS / o'er your way, / LIFE'S FAIREST / FLOWERS your / path adorn / That Joy be / yours for every day.' There is an ivory embossed decorative floral border. In very small type along the bottom edge reads: '432.N' on the left and 'ALLEN / COPYRIGHT BEAGLES POSTCARDS' on the right.

The reverse has a handwritten message in black cursive which reads: '

To my dear Wife on her 39th Birthday / from her loving husband Jim. Oct 17th 1926. / Fear not the years they bring you better dreams / Spring lingers on and Winter shorter seems / Though the autumn's mellow Summer still keeps young / And each year is better if your heart keeps young / Fear not the years they new gifts will bring / Laugh for that makes music and love will help to sing / Contentment, peace, and happiness is what the years should bring / you wont miss the hapiness of the good deed you have done, / And you'll sure escape the sorrows of the bad ones left undone, / You'll be happy growing older if you let your heart keep young, / -to my 30 year old sweetheart.'