Nay, it is by Luther Gulick. In 1957, while working for the Governmental Affairs Institute on a vast development plan for Iran,  Gulick stopped in Greece and penned these verses. Not bad, we think.

Here’s our earlier post on Gulick’s 1953 poem from Cartagena that The Atlantic Monthly spurned.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ipaprocessing/2014/10/adventure-in-democracyrhymes-with-poesy/

Write on!