<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 21px;">In Salutation To The Eternal Peace</strong><div><br></div><div>by Sarojini Naidu</div><div><br></div><div><div>Men say the world is full of fear and hate,</div><div>And all life’s ripening harvest-fields await</div><div>The restless sickle of relentless fate.</div><div><br></div><div>But I, sweet Soul, rejoice that I was born,</div><div>When from the climbing terraces of corn</div><div>I watch the golden orioles of Thy morn.</div><div><br></div><div>What care I for the world’s desire and pride,</div><div>Who know the silver wings that gleam and glide,</div><div>The homing pigeons of Thine eventide?</div><div><br></div><div>What care I for the world’s loud weariness,</div><div>Who dream in twilight granaries Thou dost bless</div><div>With delicate sheaves of mellow silences?</div><div><br></div><div>Say, shall I heed dull presages of doom,</div><div>Or dread the rumoured loneliness and gloom,</div><div>The mute and mythic terror of the tomb?</div><div><br></div><div>For my glad heart is drunk and drenched with Thee,</div><div>O inmost wind of living ecstasy!</div><div>O intimate essence of eternity!</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></body></html>