<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: "Amatic SC", cursive; clear: both; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 3.5rem; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(98, 42, 20); -webkit-hyphens: auto; text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">ALL THAT’S PAST</h1></div><div>by Walter de la Mare</div><div><br></div><div>Very old are the woods;</div><div>And the buds that break</div><div>Out of the briar’s boughs,</div><div>When March winds wake,</div><div>So old with their beauty are—</div><div>Oh, no man knows</div><div>Through what wild centuries</div><div>Roves back the rose.</div><div>Very old are the brooks;</div><div>And the rills that rise</div><div>Where snow sleeps cold beneath</div><div>The azure skies</div><div>Sing such a history</div><div>Of come and gone,</div><div>Their every drop is as wise</div><div>As Solomon.</div><div>Very old are we men;</div><div>Our dreams are tales</div><div>Told in dim Eden</div><div>By Eve’s nightingales;</div><div><br></div><div>We wake and whisper awhile,</div><div>But, the day gone by,</div><div>Silence and sleep like fields</div><div>Of amaranth lie.</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>