Credits:
[1] ~Joanna Fuchs
[2] ~Unknown
[3] -Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets From the Portuguese XIV
[4] Oscar Hammerstein II
Music:  Allons Danser, Colinda
    A bell is no bell till you ring it
    A song is no song till you sing it
And love in your heart wasn't put there to stay
    Love isn't love till you give it away.
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    To all of you, I wish
    A day of Joy

            Flowers on your table
            A special dinner

                    A card by your plate
                    And music to dance by.


                    Happy Valentines Day 2010
                    From my house to yours
                    May You Have Many More!
Roses are red,
violets are blue
 I made this card
 just for you

 It's not the
 neatest,
           it wouldn't
           pass a test

                   But it's made
                   with love—

                           that makes it
                                   the best.



           Valentine treasures are people who
           have often crossed your mind,

                   family, friends and others, too,
                   who in your life have shined
                           the warmth of love or a spark of light
                           that makes you remember them;
                           no matter how long since you’ve actually met,

                                   each one is a luminous gem
                                   who gleams and glows in your memory,
                                   bringing special pleasures,
                                   and that’s why this Valentine comes to you:
                                   You’re one of those sparkling treasures!
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                   It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return,
           but what is the most painful is to love someone
   and never finding the courage
to let the person know how you feel.
2
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only.  
Do not say
I love her for her smile--her look--her way
Of speaking gently,--for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of ease on such a day--

For these things in themselves, Belovèd, may
Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so.  Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheek dry,--

A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.
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