TARGET: GENERAL: Title of poem

[Lynn Dressman <LDressman@AOL.COM>]

    I could make one of the teachers in my school very happy by supplying the
answer to this query:  She wants to know the title of a poem that she
remembers from about 35 years ago.  The poem was in her 8th grade prose and
poetry book and was located with selections by Sandburg, Frost, Whitman and
Poe.  It was about a traveler who asked a wise man at the gate of a city,
"What type of people are in this town?"  The wise man asks, "What kind of
people whence you came?  Liars, thieves, etc.  You'll find the people here
the same."  Next traveler asks same question.  Wise man asks, "What kind of
people whence you came?  Good, true and wise.  You'll find the people here
the same."  Does this ring a bell with anyone?  Thanks for your help!
Lynn Dressman
LMS
Mt. Sinai Elem. School
Mt. Sinai, NY

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