<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; background-color: white;">Comradery</span><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; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: white;">by Madison Cawein</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: white;"><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-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: white;">With eyes hand-arched he looks into</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;"><span style="background-color: white;">The </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/morning/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">morning</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">'s </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/face/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">face</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">; then turns </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/away/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">away</span></a><br><span style="background-color: white;">With truant feet, all wet with dew,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Out for a </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/holiday/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">holiday</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">The hill brook sings; incessant stars,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Foam-fashioned, on its restless breast;</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">And where he wades its </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/water/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">water</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">-bars</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Its </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/song/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">song</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> is happiest.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">A comrade of the chinquapin,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">He looks into its knotty eyes</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">And sees its </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/heart/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">heart</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">; and, </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/deep/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">deep</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> within,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Its </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/soul/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">soul</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> that makes him </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/wise/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">wise</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">The wood-thrush knows and follows him,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Who whistles up the birds and bees;</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">And round him all the perfumes </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/swim/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">swim</span></a><br><span style="background-color: white;">Of woodland loam and trees.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">Where'er he pass the silvery springs'</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Foam-</span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/people/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">people</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> sing the flowers awake;</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">And sappy lips of bark-clad things</span><br><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/laugh/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">Laugh</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> ripe each berried brake.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">His </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/touch/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">touch</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> is a companionship;</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">His word an old </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/authority/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">authority</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">:</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">He comes, a </span><a href="https://internetpoem.com/poems/lyric/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">lyric</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> on his lip,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">The woodboy-Poesy.</span><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. 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