!!!!!!!!!!!PIRATE PRINTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Image taken from a 1913 woodcut by artist Edmund Sullivan, originally done to illustrate the 26th quatrain of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, this block print underscores the verse "The Flower that once has blown for ever dies."
see also Mouse's Skeleton & Roses Part of the Smithsonian's '20th Century American Posters' book and exhibit.