<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 42px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The Soote Season</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">by Henry Howsrd<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br><br><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With grene hath clad the hill and eke the vale:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The nightingale with fethers new she singes:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The turtle to her make hath tolde her tale:</span><span id="more-8333" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Somer is come, for euery spray nowe springes,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The hart hath hong his olde hed on the pale:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The buck in brake his winter cote he flinges:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The fishes flote with newe repaired scale:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The adder all her sloughe awaye she slinges:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The swift swalow pursueth the flyes smale:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The busy bee her honye now she minges:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Winter is worne that was the flowers bale:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And thus I see among these pleasant thinges</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 35, 36); color: rgb(37, 35, 36); font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eche care decayes, and yet my sorow springes.</span><br><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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