In hand I take this pen of mine <br />To write you, sweet, a valentine; <br />I’d take your dainty hand instead, <br />But—you’re a drawing—I am wed— <br />And that is why, you understand, <br />I only take my pen in hand.<br /><br />Ellis Parker Butler<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/valentine-to-the-girl-in-black/
