<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373930" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tennessee Claflin Shope</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was the laughing-stock of the village,<br>Chiefly of the people of good sense, as they call themselves --<br>Also of the learned, like Rev. Peet, who read Greek<br>The same as English.<br>For instead of talking free trade,<br>Or preaching some form of baptism;<br>Instead of believing in the efficacy<br>Of walking cracks -- picking up pins the right way,<br>Seeing the new moon over the right shoulder,<br>Or curing rheumatism with blue glass,<br>I asserted the sovereignty of my own soul.<br>Before Mary Baker G. Eddy even got started<br>With what she called science<br>I had mastered the &quot;Bhagavad Gita,&quot;<br>And cured my soul, before Mary<br>Began to cure bodies with souls --<br>Peace to all worlds!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373930" data-title="Tennessee Claflin Shope de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I was the laughing-stock of the village, Chiefly of the people of good sense, as they call themselves -- Also of the learned, like Rev. Peet, who read Greek The same as English. For instead of talking free trade, Or preaching some form of baptism;..."></div> </div> </div>

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