<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: rgb(84, 130, 53);">The Gladness Of Nature</span></b><br><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">By William Cullen Bryant<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">When our mother Nature laughs around; </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">When even the deep blue heavens look glad, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground?</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And the gossip of swallows through all the sky; </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And the wilding bee hums merrily by. </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The clouds are at play in the azure space, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And their shadows at play on the bright green vale, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And here they stretch to the frolic chase, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And there they roll on the easy gale. </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea. </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">On the leaping waters and gay young isles; </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></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/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></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>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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