DESIDERATA hangs in the bookshop. It is usually said to have been copied from an inscription "found in Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore; dated 1692." It was actually written by an Indiana poet named Max Ehrmann and registered with the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress early in 1927. Copyright was renewed after the author's death by his widow, and is still protected by the United States Copyright Law.

Source: DESIDERATA, Brooke House, Inc. 1972