Tennessee Claflin Shope + 

I was the laughing-stock of the village, + 

Chiefly of the people of good sense, as they call themselves⁠— + 

Also of the learned, like Rev. Peet, who read Greek + 

The same as English. + 

For instead of talking free trade, + 

Or preaching some form of baptism; + 

Instead of believing in the efficacy + 

Of walking cracks⁠—picking up pins the right way, + 

Seeing the new moon over the right shoulder, + 

Or curing rheumatism with blue glass, + 

I asserted the sovereignty of my own soul. + 

Before Mary Baker G. Eddy even got started + 

With what she called science + 

I had mastered the Bhagavad Gita, + 

And cured my soul, before Mary + 

Began to cure bodies with souls⁠— + 

Peace to all worlds! + 