The design resembles an Ex Libris; the illustration in the center is a tank and the surrounding text reads, "If you break faith with me, the strings of your lyre will sound completely out of tune." The lyre was used as a metaphor for a cannon in other Finlay picture poems - tuning of a lyre after Heroclitus or tuning of a cannon as an instrument of destruction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.