<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(60, 96, 91); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">As the Heart Hopes</span></b><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"></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;"><br></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;">by Lucy Maud Montgomery</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><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; background-color: white;">It is a year dear one, since you afar</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Went out beyond my yearning mortal sight</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">A wondrous year! perchance in many a star</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">You have sojourned, or basked within the light</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Of mightier suns; it may be you have trod</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The glittering pathways of the Pleiades,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And through the Milky Way's white mysteries</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Have walked at will, fire-shod. </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">You may have gazed in the immortal eyes</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Of prophets and of martyrs; talked with seers</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Learned in all the lore of Paradise,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The infinite wisdom of eternal years;</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To you the Sons of Morning may have sung,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The impassioned strophes of their matin hymn,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">For you the choirs of the seraphim</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Their harpings wild out-flung. </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But still I think at eve you come to me</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">For old, delightsome speech of eye and lip,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Deeming our mutual converse thus to be</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Fairer than archangelic comradeship;</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dearer our close communings fondly given</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Than all the rainbow dreams a spirit knows,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sweeter my gathered violets than the rose</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Upon the hills of heaven. </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Can any exquisite, unearthly morn,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Silverly breaking o'er a starry plain,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Give to your soul the poignant pleasure born</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Of virgin moon and sunset's lustrous stain</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">When we together watch them ? Oh, apart</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">A hundred universes you may roam,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But still I knowI knowyour only home</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Is here within my heart!<o:p></o:p></span></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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