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Printed carte-de-visite card presumably used as an introductory text card to CDV albums. Printed on the card:
An introduction to the Carte-de-Visite Album.
Within this book your eye may trace
The well known smile on friendship's face;
Here may your wandering eyes behold
The friend's of youth, the lov'd of old;
And as you gaze with tearful eye,
Sweet mem'ries of the years gone by
Will come again, with magic power,
To charm the evening's pensive hour.
Some on this book have passed the bourne
From whence to traveller's return;
Some through the world yet doomed to roam,
As pilgrims from their native home,
Are here by nature's powers enshrined,
As lov'd memorials to the mind -