Here at last

I really was beginning to feel a bit miffed - everyone's postcard had arrived but mine and it was well past lunchtime.  Just as I decided to give up and go to the shop, the postman arrived and there it was, a lovely embroidered card from Joanna, swirly waves on a pale blue ground and a quote from John Dowland: 

I desired to get beyond the sea

This is the first stitched card I've received and it really is super.  Thank you, Jo.

I wish I knew why our post is so bad at the moment.  My last card took several days to get to its recipient so I posted this one, on the theme of Angels, a day early to Penny from the local Post Office, and it did arrive on time.   I'd had quite a struggle to get it to stick together, so I was relieved it got there intact.

The Angel is from a Fra Angelico Annunciation - though not the most famous one, and thebackground is a photo of sunset printed on paper and a transparency.  I used this poem by Emily Dickinson on the reverse:

God permit industrious angels
Afternoons to play.
I met one, -- forgot my school-mates,
All, for him, straightaway.

God calls home the angels promptly
At the setting sun;
I missed mine. How dreary marbles,
After playing the Crown!

Like much of her poetry, it's quirky and difficult to decide if you've transcribed it right, but this does seem to be a correct version.