<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(25, 35, 45); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size: 27px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">A Psalm of Life</span><div dir="ltr"><div>by Henry Warsworth Longfellow</div><div><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 20px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">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.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 20px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">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.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 20px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">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.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 20px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">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.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 20px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">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!</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 20px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">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!</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 20px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">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;</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 20px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Footprints, that perhaps another,<br>Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,<br>A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,<br>Seeing, shall take heart again.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 20px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">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.</p><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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