<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><b>“The Stick-Together Families”</b> by Edgar Guest</div><div><br></div><div>The stick-together families are happier by far</div><div>Than the brothers and the sisters who take separate highways are.</div><div>The gladdest people living are the wholesome folks who make</div><div>A circle at the fireside that no power but death can break.</div><div>And the finest of conventions ever held beneath the sun</div><div>Are the little family gatherings when the busy day is done.</div><div><br></div><div>There are rich folk, there are poor folk, who imagine they are wise,</div><div>And they're very quick to shatter all the little family ties.</div><div>Each goes searching after pleasure in his own selected way,</div><div>Each with strangers likes to wander, and with strangers likes to play.</div><div>But it's bitterness they harvest, and it's empty joy they find,</div><div>For the children that are wisest are the stick-together kind.</div><div><br></div><div>There are some who seem to fancy that for gladness they must roam,</div><div>That for smiles that are the brightest they must wander far from home.</div><div>That the strange friend is the true friend, and they travel far astray</div><div>they waste their lives in striving for a joy that's far away,</div><div>But the gladdest sort of people, when the busy day is done,</div><div>Are the brothers and the sisters who together share their fun.</div><div><br></div><div>It's the stick-together family that wins the joys of earth,</div><div>That hears the sweetest music and that finds the finest mirth;</div><div>It's the old home roof that shelters all the charm that life can give;</div><div>There you find the gladdest play-ground, there the happiest spot to live.</div><div>And, O weary, wandering brother, if contentment you would win,</div><div>Come you back unto the fireside and be comrade with your kin.</div></div><div><br></div>———————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" </span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>