<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"><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 Eternal Peace</strong><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>by Sarojini Naidu</div><div><br></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; border: none; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.476; margin: 0px auto 1.25em; padding: 0px; max-width: 58rem; width: calc(100% - 4rem); font-family: NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;">Men say the world is full of fear and hate,<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">And all life’s ripening harvest-fields await<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">The restless sickle of relentless fate.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; border: none; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.476; margin: 0px auto 1.25em; padding: 0px; max-width: 58rem; width: calc(100% - 4rem); font-family: NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;">But I, sweet Soul, rejoice that I was born,<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">When from the climbing terraces of corn<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">I watch the golden orioles of Thy morn.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; border: none; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.476; margin: 0px auto 1.25em; padding: 0px; max-width: 58rem; width: calc(100% - 4rem); font-family: NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;">What care I for the world’s desire and pride,<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Who know the silver wings that gleam and glide,<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">The homing pigeons of Thine eventide?</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; border: none; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.476; margin: 0px auto 1.25em; padding: 0px; max-width: 58rem; width: calc(100% - 4rem); font-family: NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;">What care I for the world’s loud weariness,<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Who dream in twilight granaries Thou dost bless<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">With delicate sheaves of mellow silences?</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; border: none; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.476; margin: 0px auto 1.25em; padding: 0px; max-width: 58rem; width: calc(100% - 4rem); font-family: NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;">Say, shall I heed dull presages of doom,<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Or dread the rumoured loneliness and gloom,<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">The mute and mythic terror of the tomb?</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; border: none; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.476; margin: 0px auto 1.25em; padding: 0px; max-width: 58rem; width: calc(100% - 4rem); font-family: NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;">For my glad heart is drunk and drenched with Thee,<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">O inmost wind of living ecstasy!<br style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">O intimate essence of eternity!</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. 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