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| Mail Box |
Paused to sketch and noticed this sentry--until then, invisible to me. The mail box stands along an old Pony Express route, which followed an even older Indian trail.
Messenger of Sympathy and Love
Servant of Parted Friends
Consoler of the Lonely
Bond of the Scattered Family
Enlarger of the Common Life
Carrier of News and Knowledge
Instrument of Trade and Industry
Promoter of Mutual Acquaintance
Of Peace and of Goodwill
Among Men and Nations.
-------by Charles W. Eliot, former Harvard President (Slightly edited by Woodrow Wilson; inscribed on Smithsonian National Postal Museum, a former D.C. Post office.)
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