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Cities and hamlets that lay wherever the Greeks

pronounced their Hellenic language claimed

to be birthplace and home of the father of poets, great Homer:

Chios, Salamis in Cyprus, Ionia, Smyrna,

and even Egyptian Thebes. But a man can be born

in a single location alone, and so one speaks true,

while the others are wishful pretenders who wink at the truth.

So do the tumbled adorings of India lie,

and the horse and the flame of the Persians, the disengagement

of Buddha in China, the worship of trees and of animals,

Arabic efforts to bolster their racial esteem—

lies to acquire for themselves the home-place of God.

But He broke into time at a single location, a Man,

perturbing the ones who, if able, had sent Him back home.