<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(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra Roman No 2"; font-size: 2.5rem; font-style: italic; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">To Susan B. Anthony on her eightieth birthday</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>by Elizabeth Cady Stanton</div><div><br></div><div>My honored friend, I’ll ne’er forget,</div><div>That day in June, when first we met:</div><div>Oh! would I had the skill to paint</div><div>My vision of that “Quaker Saint”:</div><div>Robed in pale blue and silver gray,</div><div>No silly fashions did she essay:</div><div>Her brow so smooth and fair,</div><div>‘Neath coils of soft brown hair:</div><div>Her voice was like the lark, so clear,</div><div>So rich, and pleasant to the ear:</div><div>The “‘Prentice hand,” on man oft tried,</div><div>Now made in her the Nation’s pride!</div><div><br></div><div>We met and loved, ne’er to part,</div><div>Hand clasped in hand, heart bound to heart.</div><div>We’ve traveled West, years together,</div><div>Day and night, in stormy weather:</div><div>Climbing the rugged Suffrage hill,</div><div>Bravely facing every ill:</div><div>Resting, speaking, everywhere;</div><div>Oft-times in the open air;</div><div>From sleighs, ox-carts, and coaches,</div><div>Besieged with bugs and roaches:</div><div>All for the emancipation </div><div>Of the women of our Nation. </div><div><br></div><div>Now, we’ve had enough of travel.</div><div>And, in turn, laid down the gavel,—</div><div>In triumph having reached four score,</div><div>We’ll give our thoughts to art, and lore.</div><div>In the time-honored retreat,</div><div>Side by side, we’ll take a seat,</div><div>To younger hands resign the reins,</div><div>With all the honors, and the gains.</div><div>United, down life’s hill we’ll glide,</div><div>What’er the coming years betide;</div><div>Parted only when first, in time,</div><div>Eternal joys are thine, or mine.</div></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<div><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></div></body></html>