<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: "noe display", Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: calc(1.325rem + 0.9vw); text-align: center; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Comradery</span><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>by Madison Cawein</div><div><br></div><div>With eyes hand-arched he looks into</div><div>The morning’s face; then turns away</div><div>With truant feet, all wet with dew,</div><div>Out for a holiday.</div><div> </div><div>The hill brook sings; incessant stars,</div><div>Foam-fashioned, on its restless breast;</div><div>And where he wades its water-bars</div><div>Its song is happiest.</div><div> </div><div>A comrade of the chinquapin,</div><div>He looks into its knotty eyes</div><div>And sees its heart; and, deep within,</div><div>Its soul that makes him wise.</div><div> </div><div>The wood-thrush knows and follows him,</div><div>Who whistles up the birds and bees;</div><div>And round him all the perfumes swim</div><div>Of woodland loam and trees.</div><div> </div><div>Where’er he pass the silvery springs’</div><div>Foam-people sing the flowers awake;</div><div>And sappy lips of bark-clad things</div><div>Laugh ripe each berried brake.</div><div> </div><div>His touch is a companionship;</div><div>His word an old authority:</div><div>He comes, a lyric on his lip,</div><div>The woodboy-Poesy.</div></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></body></html>