<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div><b>“Good Timber”</b> by Douglas Malloch</div><div><br></div><div>The tree that never had to fight</div><div> For sun and sky and air and light,</div><div>But stood out in the open plain</div><div> And always got its share of rain,</div><div>Never became a forest king</div><div> But lived and died a scrubby thing.</div><div><br></div><div>The man who never had to toil</div><div> To gain and farm his patch of soil,</div><div>Who never had to win his share</div><div> Of sun and sky and light and air,</div><div>Never became a manly man</div><div> But lived and died as he began.</div><div><br></div><div>Good timber does not grow with ease,</div><div> The stronger wind, the stronger trees,</div><div>The further sky, the greater length,</div><div> The more the storm, the more the strength.</div><div>By sun and cold, by rain and snow,</div><div> In trees and men good timbers grow.</div><div><br></div><div>Where thickest lies the forest growth</div><div> We find the patriarchs of both.</div><div>And they hold counsel with the stars</div><div> Whose broken branches show the scars</div><div>Of many winds and much of strife.</div><div> This is the common law of life.</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" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</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></div></div></div></body></html>