This file is an excerpt
from the September 1997 version of Mark Israel's AUE FAQ.
The file was re-generated Friday 23 January 2004 01:36 GMT.
To see the full AUE FAQ at Mark Israel's Web site, click here.
"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste" (Desiderata)
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"Desiderata" was written in 1927 by Max Ehrmann (1872-1945). In
1956, the rector of St. Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland, used
the poem in a collection of mimeographed inspirational material for
his congregation. Someone who subsequently printed it asserted that
it was found in Old St. Paul's Church, dated 1692. The year 1692
was the founding date of the church and has nothing to do with the
poem. See Fred D. Cavinder, "Desiderata", TWA Ambassador, Aug.
1973, pp. 14-15.