Mid-20th Century Classical Tole Wastepaper Basket

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Offering a lovely mid-20th century tole wastepaper basket. This dramatic can has double lion, drop-pull handles and a paper transfer … Read more Offering a lovely mid-20th century tole wastepaper basket. This dramatic can has double lion, drop-pull handles and a paper transfer print of sheet music featuring the 18th-century poem "To Chloe." The lyrics read:

Whenever, Chloe, I begin
Your heart like mine to move,
You tell me of the crying sin
Of unchaste lawless love.
How can that passion be a sin,
Which gave to Chloe birth?
How can those joys but be divine,
Which make a heaven on earth?
To wed, mankind the priest trepann'd,
By some sly fallacy,
And disobey'd God's great command,
Increase and multiply.
You say that love's a crime; content:
Yet this allow you must,
More joy's in heav'n if one repent,
Than over ninety just.
Sin then, dear girl, for heaven's sake,
Repent and be forgiven;
Bless me, and by repentance make
A holy day in heav'n. See less