<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 dir="ltr"><font size="+2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: verdana; text-align: -webkit-center;"><b>The Motor Car</b></font><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center;"> </span><div><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; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); 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-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;">by Henry Lawson</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; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The motor car is sullen, like a thing that should not be; <br>The motor car is master of Smart Society. <br>'Twas born of sweated genius and collared by a clown; <br>'Twas planned by Retribution to ride its riders down. <br> And straight for Caesar's Column, <br> It runs to Caesar's Column, <br> Last section, Caesar's Column <br> To ride its riders down! <br><br>The motor car is shame-struck, for greed and misery, <br>For mad and hopeless self-lust, and the sins that need not be. <br>The motor car is vicious, for its conscience makes it so, <br>It aye would smash the victims while it runs the riders low. <br> And straight for Caesar's Column, <br> Its goal is Caesar's Column, <br> It longs for Caesar's Column <br> To lay its riders low. <br><br>The motor car is maddened like a horse that's had a fright, <br>The shameful day behind it and the Coming of the Night! <br>It flees across the country and it flees back to the town <br>And straight for Caesar's Column to run its riders down. <br> And straight for Caesar's Column, <br> What ho! for Caesar's Column! <br> Hurrah! for Caesar's Column! <br> To seal its riders down. <br><br>The motor car is reckless like a gambler losing fast; <br>The motor car's in terror of the Future — and the Past; <br>The motor car is worn out and has passed Sin's boundary by, <br>And is bound for Caesar's Column where to pile its riders high. <br> It's bound for Caesar's Column <br> And marked for Caesar's Column, <br> And doomed for Caesar's Column <br> To pile its riders high. <br><br>The motor car is brainless, and scornful of all tears, <br>Its dust is in our faces, its giggle in our ears, <br>Its harsh laugh is the last laugh of the last lost soul alone, <br>'Tis nearing Caesar's Column to set self-damned in stone. <br> Change here for Caesar's Column! <br> All out for Caesar's Column! <br> Past Hope — and Caesar's Column <br> To lodge self-damned in stone. <br><br>I don't know how 'twill happen, or when 'twill come to pass, <br>But folk shall yet pass sanely by river, tree and grass; <br>By homesteads and farm wagons, they'll ride each pleasant mile, <br>And back from Caesar's Column where the world went mad awhile. <br> And back from Caesar's Column <br> With lessons from the Column; <br> Grown sane at Caesar's Column <br> To save the world awhile.<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. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></body></html>