I'm too tired tonight to fiddle around with translation sites. In fact, it took me awhile to see that LOVE is spelled out in roses on this postcard. This happens to be one of those postcards that I find more interesting on the back than the front, with the note written in Finnish to my paternal grandmother and that most excellent stamp! Don't get me wrong, though, roses are always fully appreciated.......
A Rose to The Living
A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the
dead:
In filling love's infinite store,
A rose to the living is more
If graciously given before
The hungering spirit is fled--
A rose to the living is more,
Than sumptuous wreaths to the
dead.
-Nixon Waterman
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