<div dir="auto">Thanks Tom. This is quite lovely</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 07:04 Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(52,52,52);font-family:"Poets Electra Roman No 2";font-size:2.5rem;font-style:italic">A Boy and His Dad</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">by Edgar Guest</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">A boy and his dad on a fishing-trip—<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">There is a glorious fellowship!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Father and son and the open sky<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">And the white clouds lazily drifting by,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">And the laughing stream as it runs along<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">With the clicking reel like a martial song,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">And the father teaching the youngster gay<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">How to land a fish in the sportsman's way.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">I fancy I hear them talking there<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">In an open boat, and the speech is fair.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">And the boy is learning the ways of men<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">From the finest man in his youthful ken.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Kings, to the youngster, cannot compare<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">With the gentle father who's with him there.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">And the greatest mind of the human race<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Not for one minute could take his place.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Which is happier, man or boy?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">The soul of the father is steeped in joy,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">For he's finding out, to his heart's delight,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">That his son is fit for the future fight.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">He is learning the glorious depths of him,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">And the thoughts he thinks and his every whim;<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">And he shall discover, when night comes on,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">How close he has grown to his little son.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">A boy and his dad on a fishing-trip—<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Builders of life's companionship!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Oh, I envy them, as I see them there<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Under the sky in the open air,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">For out of the old, old long-ago<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Come the summer days that I used to know,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">When I learned life's truths from my father's lips<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">As I shared the joy of his fishing-trips.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><br></div>———————</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Me and my dad at Lake Mead in 1958.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Photos/Dad/Dad_Tom_Lake_Mead.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Photos/Dad/Dad_Tom_Lake_Mead.jpg</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">————————————————-<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><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.MoscowCares.net</a></span></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><d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