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For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.

— Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno (1759)

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Then comes rosy health from her cottage of thatch,
Where never physician hath lifted the latch.

Too hard for any frog's digestion,
To have his froghood call'd in question!

Fables (1750)

Behind him came Health from her cottage of thatch,
Where never physician had lifted the latch.

For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

Jubilate Agno (1759)

Glorious the sun in mid-career;
Glorious th' assembled fires appear.

A Song to David (1763)

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