Kneeling on a country path, a young man in a grey suit implores a auburn-haired woman in a sweeping blue-grey skirt and green velvet bodice, her finger raised to her lips in coy deliberation — above them a white dove wheels through a sky of cracked gold, and scarlet blossoms frame the composition in a lush gilt roundel. The card's printed German verse reads: "Jetzt weiss ich, was mein Taubenpaar / Mit seinem sanften Girren sagte, / Und was der Nachtigallen Schaar / So zärtlich sich in Liedern klagte" — "Now I know what my pair of doves / said with their gentle cooing, / And what the host of nightingales / so tenderly lamented in their songs." A handwritten message in German script fills the lower margin and runs onto the image, signed with warmth. The reverse, a Postkarte format, is addressed in elegant Kurrent script to Herrn Onkel Romme, Rimburg, Otto & in Mützhal, postmarked from Woldberg (or Waldberg) with a cancel dated 12.3 (March 12), and a machine slogan cancel reading "KAREEM 12 3." An intimate piece of Wilhelmine-era European correspondence at its most romantically florid.