Skylark

 

"Skylark, said a dear little boy.

Pray, where do you go when you fly so high?

Skylark, say, it is true

That you sing to the angels in the sky?

If so, my Mother's an angel up there.

And we do miss her so, you see

So would you please, the next time you go up,

Take this message from Dad and me".

To follow our hostesses Beth's theme of the anniversary of the Twin Towers perhaps this card symbolises all the people who went to work that day and never returned home.

The verse is a music hall song of 1901 written by EW Rogers.

The card is unused but I would guess from the message at the top telling the purchaser that it "may now be used for communication" must put it in the years after 1902.  James Bamford began his career as a manufacturer of lantern slides and the Bamford company became one of the largest producers of model slides.  This "life-model lantern slide" is one of the many reproduced by the company on postcards.

An entry to Postcard Friendship Friday