<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><h3 id="apsalm" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 27px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; color: rgb(25, 35, 45); line-height: 1.5; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">A Psalm of Life</h3></div><div>by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 22.3pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tell me not, in mournful numbers,<br>Life is but an empty dream!<br>For the soul is dead that slumbers,<br>And things are not what they seem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 22.3pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Life is real! Life is earnest!<br>And the grave is not its goal;<br>Dust thou art, to dust returnest,<br>Was not spoken of the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 22.3pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,<br>Is our destined end or way;<br>But to act, that each to-morrow<br>Find us farther than to-day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 22.3pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Art is long, and Time is fleeting,<br>And our hearts, though stout and brave,<br>Still, like muffled drums, are beating<br>Funeral marches to the grave.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 22.3pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In the world’s broad field of battle,<br>In the bivouac of Life,<br>Be not like dumb, driven cattle!<br>Be a hero in the strife!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 22.3pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!<br>Let the dead Past bury its dead!<br>Act,—act in the living Present!<br>Heart within, and God o’erhead!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 22.3pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lives of great men all remind us<br>We can make our lives sublime,<br>And, departing, leave behind us<br>Footprints on the sands of time;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 22.3pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Footprints, that perhaps another,<br>Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,<br>A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,<br>Seeing, shall take heart again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 22.3pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Let us, then, be up and doing,<br>With a heart for any fate;<br>Still achieving, still pursuing,<br>Learn to labor and to wait.</span></p></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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