C Baudry wrote:
> While writing my personal mission statement, I bumped into a reproduction
> of an old english parchment I had bought 10 years ago while visiting
> Canterbury. I looks like guidelines to live a fruitful life. I would be
> interested in receiving comments or if someone knew the origin of this
> text.
Sorry, Christian, the Desiderata is not an old English text. It was
written in 1927 by a German-American poet Max Ehrmann (from Terre Haute,
Ind.). It seems that this poem is often wrongly attributed.
I have a copy reprinted in a collection of Ehrmann's poems in: The
desiderata of happiness. London: Souvenir, 1986. ISBN 0 285 62724 4
It seems that the collection was probably first published in the US in
1948, three years after the poet's death.
Some of the other poems are just as beautiful and thought-provoking as
the Desiderata.
Regards,
Annette
-- Annette Huang Manukau Institute of Technology Manukau, NZLearning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>