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Goshen

How can you live in Goshen?
Said a friend from afar.
This is a wretched little place
Where people talk about tawdry things
And plant cabbages in the moonlight...

But I do not live in Goshen, I answered.
I live in Greece
Where Plato taught and Phidias carved.
I live in Rome
Where Cicero penned immortal lines
And Michelangelo dreamed things of beauty.
Do not think my world is small
Because you find me in a little village.
I have my books, my pictures, my dreams,
Enchantments that transcend Time and Space.
I do not live in Goshen at all,
I live in an unbounded universe
With the great souls of all the ages
For my companions.

(Edgar Frank)

AGAINST STUPIDITY, THE GODS THEMSELVES STRUGGLE IN VAIN.