<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(84, 130, 53); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 26pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Work without Hope</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(37, 35, 36);"><amp-ad type="doubleclick" data-slot="/18190176/AdThrive_Content_1/5cd4333495adbd7574c9094c" json="{"targeting":{"siteId":"5cd4333495adbd7574c9094c","siteName":"Interesting Literature","amp_type":"rtc", "decref":"240", "location":"Content","sequence":1,"refresh":"false","amp":"true"}}" layout="fluid" height="fluid" width="336" data-multi-size="300x250,336x280,300x50,320x100,320x50,1x1" data-multi-size-validation="false" rtc-config="{
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}}" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></amp-ad>Lines Composed February 21,1825</span></em><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(37, 35, 36);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(37, 35, 36);">All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing—<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And Winter slumbering in the open air,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.<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(37, 35, 36); background-color: white;">Yet well I ken the banks where amaranths blow,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(37, 35, 36);"><br><span style="background-color: white;">Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow.</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Bloom, O ye amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">And Hope without an object cannot live.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-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><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</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><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>