<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><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-size: 42px; line-height: 50.400001525878906px; font-family: sans-serif, serif; position: relative; caret-color: rgb(72, 72, 72);">Absolution</h1></div><div><br></div><div>by Siegfried Sassoon</div><div><br></div><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;">The anguish of the earth absolves our eyes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">Till beauty shines in all that we can see.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">War is our scourge; yet war has made us wise,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">And, fighting for our freedom, we are free.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">Horror of wounds and anger at the foe,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">And loss of things desired; all these must pass.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">We are the happy legion, for we know<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">Time's but a golden wind that shakes the grass.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">There was an hour when we were loth to part<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">From life we longed to share no less than others.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">Now, having claimed this heritage of heart,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">What need we more, my comrades and my brothers?</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><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>