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from Prabal Ray (Prabal.Ray@uk.abnamro.com)
Desiderata

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste..."

This is copyrighted poem and is not in the public domain as is believed by many distributors. The author is Max Ehrmann, a poet who lived from 1872 to 1945. Desiderata was written in 1927, and is printed in a collection of his poems published in 1948. In 1956, the rector of St. Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland, used the poem in a collection of material he compiled for his congregation. Someone who printed it later said that it was found in Old St. Paul's Church, dated 1692. The year 1692 is the founding date of the church and is unrelated to the poem, although Desiderata has been widely printed and distributed with the implication that the poem was dated 1692.

(posted 9178 days ago)

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