Needed Things Flowing as a Red Tide

Needed things flowing as a red tide crossword clue. Daily Telegraph Sydney crptic crossword puzzle Monday, 12 June 2017. 10 letters.

The answer: DESIDERATA

American writer Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) wrote the prose poem Desiderata in 1927, which was first published in The Poems of Max Ehrmann in 1948. In 1956, the Reverend Frederick Kates, rector of Saint Paul’s Church in Baltimore, Maryland, included Desiderata in a compilation of devotional materials for his congregation. The compilation included the church’s foundation date: “Old Saint Paul’s Church, Baltimore AD 1692”. Consequently, the date of the text’s authorship was (and still is) widely mistaken as 1692, the year of the church’s foundation.