<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Wars" by Carl Sandburg</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the old wars drum of hoofs and the beat of shod feet.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the new wars hum of motors and the tread of rubber tires.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the wars to come silent wheels and whirr of rods not yet dreamed out in the heads of men.</span></font></div></h2><h2 style="text-align: -webkit-auto; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: top; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></h2><h2 style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the old wars clutches of short swords and jabs into faces with spears.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the new wars long range guns and smashed walls, guns running a spit of metal and men falling in tens and twenties.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the wars to come new silent death, new silent hurlers not yet dreamed out in the heads of men.</span></font></div></h2><h2 style="text-align: -webkit-auto; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: top; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></h2><h2 style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the old wars kings quarreling and thousands of men following.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the new wars kings quarreling and millions of men following.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the wars to come kings kicked under the dust and millions of men following great causes not yet dreamed out in the heads of men.</span></font></div></h2></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br><div>Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>