<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"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 2.4rem; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Equality</span><div dir="ltr"><div>by John McCrae</div><div><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I saw a King, who spent his life to weave</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Into a nation all his great heart thought,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Unsatisfied until he should achieve</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The grand ideal that his manhood sought;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yet as he saw the end within his reach,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Death took the sceptre from his failing hand,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And all men said, "He gave his life to teach</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The task of honour to a sordid land!"</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Within his gates I saw, through all those years,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> One at his humble toil with cheery face,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Whom (being dead) the children, half in tears,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Remembered oft, and missed him from his place.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If he be greater that his people blessed</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Than he the children loved, God knoweth best.</span></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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