A selection from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, 1923. Kahlil Gibran came from Bsharri, a small town in what was then the Ottoman Empire but which is now part of Lebanon, and which is home to the last vestiges of the Forest of the Cedars of Lebanon which were used by the Egyptians, Phoneticians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others for ship building. Gibran moved to the U.S as a young
