1850 Hand-embroidered Mourning Card with Handwritten Poem or Prayer in Period Frame boy's drawing in very condition

in very condition

Overall good to very good condition

and about as pure an embodiment of endurance

marvelous details

1850 Hand-embroidered Mourning Card with Handwritten Poem or Prayer in Period Frame boy's drawing in very conditionSo tender and lovely. The handwritten text covering every unstitched inch of this looks to me to be German; I find it hard to decipher but certain phrases seems to appear over and over, so surely a poem or perhaps specifically a prayer. Perhaps it speaks of a sailor lost at sea, which the anchor leaning against the cross at center would suggest, and, with those two wonderful burning hearts, of the true love between the one lost and the one left