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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357282" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 1</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Shedeur rejoice with Pyrausta, who dwelleth in a medium of fire, which God hath adapted for him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Shelumiel rejoice with Olor, who is of a goodly savour, and the very look of him harmonizes the mind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Jael rejoice with the Plover, who whistles for his live, and foils the marksmen and their guns. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Raguel rejoice with the Cock of Portugal -- God send good Angels to the allies of England! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Hobab rejoice with Necydalus, who is the Greek of a Grub. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Zurishaddai with the Polish Cock rejoice -- The Lord restore peace to Europe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Zuar rejoice with the Guinea Hen -- The Lord add to his mercies in the WEST! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Chesed rejoice with Strepsiceros, whose weapons are the ornaments of his peace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Hagar rejoice with Gnesion, who is the right sort of eagle, and towers the highest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Libni rejoice with the Redshank, who migrates not but is translated to the upper regions. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Nahshon rejoice with the Seabreese, the Lord give the sailors of his Spirit. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Helon rejoice with the Woodpecker -- the Lord encourage the propagation of trees! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Amos rejoice with the Coote -- prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ephah rejoice with Buprestis, the Lord endue us with temperance and humanity, till every cow have her mate! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Sarah rejoice with the Redwing, whose harvest is in the frost and snow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Rebekah rejoice with Iynx, who holds his head on one side to deceive the adversary. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Shuah rejoice with Boa, which is the vocal serpent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ehud rejoice with Onocrotalus, whose braying is for the glory of God, because he makes the best musick in his power. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Shamgar rejoice with Otis, who looks about him for the glory of God, and sees the horizon compleat at once. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Bohan rejoice with the Scythian Stag -- he is beef and breeches against want and nakedness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Achsah rejoice with the Pigeon who is an antidote to malignity and will carry a letter. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Tohu rejoice with the Grouse -- the Lord further the cultivating of heaths and the peopling of deserts. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Hillel rejoice with Ammodytes, whose colour is deceitful and he plots against the pilgrim's feet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Eli rejoice with Leucon -- he is an honest fellow, which is a rarity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Jemuel rejoice with Charadrius, who is from the HEIGHT and the sight of him is good for the jaundice. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Pharaoh rejoice with Anataria, whom God permits to prey upon the ducks to check their increase. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Lotan rejoice with Sauterelle. Blessed be the name of the Lord from the Lote-tree to the Palm. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Dishon rejoice with the Landrail, God give his grace to the society for preserving the game. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Hushim rejoice with the King's Fisher, who is of royal beauty, tho' plebeian size. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Machir rejoice with Convolvulus, from him to the ring of Saturn, which is the girth of Job; to the signet of God -- from Job and his daughters BLESSED BE JESUS. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Atad bless with Eleos, the nightly Memorialist ελεησον κυριε . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Jamim rejoice with the Bittern -- blessed be the name of Jesus for Denver Sluice, Ruston, and the draining of the fens. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ohad rejoice with Byturos who eateth the vine and is a minister of temperance. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Zohar rejoice with Cychramus who cometh with the quails on a particular affair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Serah, the daughter of Asher, rejoice with Ceyx, who maketh his cabin in the Halcyon's hold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Magdiel rejoice with Ascarides, which is the life of the bowels -- the worm hath a part in our frame. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Becher rejoice with Oscen who terrifies the wicked, as trumpet and alarm the coward. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Shaul rejoice with Circos, who hath clumsy legs, but he can wheel it the better with his wings. -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Hamul rejoice with the Crystal, who is pure and translucent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ziphion rejoice with the Tit-Lark who is a groundling, but he raises the spirits. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Mibzar rejoice with the Cadess, as is their number, so are their names, blessed be the Lord Jesus for them all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Jubal rejoice with Cascilia, the woman and the slow-worm praise the name of the Lord. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Arodi rejoice with the Royston Crow, there is a society of them at Trumpington and Cambridge. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Areli rejoice with the Criel, who is a dwarf that towereth above others. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Phuvah rejoice with Platycerotes, whose weapons of defence keep them innocent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Shimron rejoice with the Kite, who is of more value than many sparrows. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Sered rejoice with the Wittal -- a silly bird is wise unto his own preservation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Elon rejoice with Attelabus, who is the Locust without wings. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Jahleel rejoice with the Woodcock, who liveth upon suction and is pure from his diet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Shuni rejoice with the Gull, who is happy in not being good for food. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ezbon rejoice with Musimon, who is from the ram and she-goat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Barkos rejoice with the Black Eagle, which is the least of his species and the best-natured. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Bedan rejoice with Ossifrage -- the bird of prey and the man of prayer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Naomi rejoice with Pseudosphece who is between a wasp and a hornet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ruth rejoice with the Tumbler -- it is a pleasant thing to feed him and be thankful. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ram rejoice with the Fieldfare, who is a good gift from God in the season of scarcity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Manoah rejoice with Cerastes, who is a Dragon with horns. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Talmai rejoice with Alcedo, who makes a cradle for it's young, which is rock'd by the winds. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Bukki rejoice with the Buzzard, who is clever, with the reputation of a silly fellow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Michal rejoice with Leucocruta who is a mixture of beauty and magnanimity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Abiah rejoice with Morphnus who is a bird of passage to the Heavens. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Hur rejoice with the Water-wag-tail, who is a neighbour, and loves to be looked at. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Dodo rejoice with the purple Worm, who is cloathed sumptuously, tho he fares meanly. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ahio rejoice with the Merlin who is a cousin german of the hawk. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Joram rejoice with the Water-Rail, who takes his delight in the river. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Chileab rejoice with Ophion who is clean made, less than an hart, and a Sardinian. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Shephatiah rejoice with the little Owl, which is the wingged Cat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ithream rejoice with the great Owl, who understandeth that which he professes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Abigail rejoice with Lethophagus -- God be gracious to the widows indeed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Anathoth bless with Saurix, who is a bird of melancholy. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Shammua rejoice with the Vultur who is strength and fierceness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Shobab rejoice with Evech who is of the goat kind which is meditation and pleasantry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ittai the Gittite rejoice with the Gerfalcon amicus certus in re incertâ cernitur. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ibhar rejoice with the Pochard -- a child born in prosperity is the chiefest blessing of peace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Elishua rejoice with Cantharis -- God send bread and milk to the children. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Chimham bless with Drepanis who is a passenger from the sea to heaven. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Toi rejoice with Percnopteros which haunteth the sugar-fens. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Nepheg rejoice with Cenchris which is the spotted serpent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Japhia rejoice with Buteo who hath three testicles. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Gibeon rejoice with the Puttock, who will shift for himself to the last extremity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Elishama rejoice with Mylæcos Ισχετε χειρα μυλαιον αλιτριδε& #962; . ευδετε μακρα . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Elimelech rejoice with the Horn-Owl who is of gravity and amongst my friends in the tower. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Eliada rejoice with the Gier-eagle who is swift and of great penetration. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Eliphalet rejoice with Erodius who is God's good creature, which is sufficient for him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Jonathan, David's nephew, rejoice with Oripelargus who is noble by his ascent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Sheva rejoice with the Hobby, who is the service of the great. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ahimaaz rejoice with the Silver-Worm who is a living mineral. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Shobi rejoice with the Kastrel -- blessed be the name JESUS in falconry and in the MALL </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Elkanah rejoice with Cymindis -- the Lord illuminate us against the powers of darkness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ziba rejoice with Glottis whose tongue is wreathed in his throat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Micah rejoice with the spotted Spider, who counterfeits death to effect his purposes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Rizpah rejoice with the Eyed Moth who is beautiful in corruption. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Naharai, Joab's armour-bearer rejoice with Rock who is a bird of stupendous magnitude. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Abiezer, the Anethothite, rejoice with Phrynos who is the scaled frog. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Nachon rejoice with Parcas who is a serpent more innocent than others. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Lapidoth with Percnos -- the Lord is the builder of the wall of CHINA -- REJOICE. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ahinoam rejoice with Prester -- The seed of the woman hath bruised the serpents head. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Phurah rejoice with Penelopes, the servant of Gideon with the fowl of the brook. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Jether, the son of Gideon, rejoice with Ecchetae which are musical grashoppers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Hushai rejoice with the Ospray who is able to parry the eagle. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Eglah rejoice with Phalaris who is a pleasant object upon the water. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Haggith rejoice with the white Weasel who devoureth the honey and it's maker. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Abital rejoice with Ptyas who is arrayed in green and gold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Maacah rejoice with Dryophyte who was blessed of the Lord in the valley. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Zabud Solomon's friend rejoice with Oryx who is a frolicksome mountaineer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Adoniram the receiver general of the excise rejoice with Hypnale the sleepy adder. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Pedahel rejoice with Pityocampa who eateth his house in the pine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Ibzam rejoice with the Brandling -- the Lord further the building of bridges and making rivers navigable. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Gilead rejoice with Gentle -- the Lord make me a fisher of men. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Zelophehad rejoice with Ascalabotes who casteth not his coat till a new one is prepared for him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Mahlah rejoice with Pellos who is a tall bird and stately. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Tirzah rejoice with Tylus which is the Cheeslip and food for the chicken. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Hoglah rejoice with Leontophonos who will kill the lion, if he is eaten. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Milcah rejoice with the Horned Beetle who will strike a man in the face. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Noah rejoice with Hibris who is from a wild boar and a tame sow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Abdon rejoice with the Glede who is very voracious and may not himself be eaten. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Zuph rejoice with Dipsas, whose bite causeth thirst. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Schechem of Manasseh rejoice with the Green Worm whose livery is of the field. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Gera rejoice with the Night Hawk -- blessed are those who watch when others sleep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Anath rejoice with Rauca who inhabiteth the root of the oak. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Cherub rejoice with the Cherub who is a bird and a blessed Angel. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am not without authority in my jeopardy, which I derive inevitably from the glory of the name of the Lord. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God whose name is Jealous -- and there is a zeal to deliver us from everlasting burnings. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For my existimation is good even amongst the slanderers and my memory shall arise for a sweet savour unto the Lord. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless the PRINCE of PEACE and pray that all the guns may be nail'd up, save such are for the rejoicing days. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I have abstained from the blood of the grape and that even at the Lord's table. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I have glorified God in GREEK and LATIN, the consecrated languages spoken by the Lord on earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I meditate the peace of Europe amongst family bickerings and domestic jars. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the HOST is in the WEST -- the Lord make us thankful unto salvation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I preach the very GOSPEL of CHRIST without comment and with this weapon shall I slay envy. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God in the rising generation, which is on my side. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I have translated in the charity, which makes things better and I shall be translated myself at the last. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he that walked upon the sea, hath prepared the floods with the Gospel of peace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the merciful man is merciful to his beast, and to the trees that give them shelter. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he hath turned the shadow of death into the morning,the Lord is his name. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am come home again, but there is nobody to kill the calf or to pay the musick. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the hour of my felicity, like the womb of Sarah, shall come at the latter end. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I shou'd have avail'd myself of waggery, had not malice been multitudinous. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there are still serpents that can speak -- God bless my head, my heart and my heel. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God that I am of the same seed as Ehud, Mutius Scævola, and Colonel Draper. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the word of God is a sword on my side -- no matter what other weapon a stick or a straw. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I have adventured myself in the name of the Lord, and he hath marked me for his own. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God for the Postmaster general and all conveyancers of letters under his care especially Allen and Shelvock. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For my grounds in New Canaan shall infinitely compensate for the flats and maynes of Staindrop Moor. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the praise of God can give to a mute fish the notes of a nightingale. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I have seen the White Raven and Thomas Hall of Willingham and am my self a greater curiosity than both. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I look up to heaven which is my prospect to escape envy by surmounting it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For if Pharaoh had known Joseph, he woud have blessed God and me for the illumination of the people. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God to bless improvements in gardening till London be a city of palm-trees. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray to give his grace to the poor of England, that Charity be not offended and that benevolence may increase. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is a blessing from the STONE of JESUS which is founded upon hell to the precious jewell on the right hand of God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the nightly Visitor is at the window of the impenitent, while I sing a psalm of my own composing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is a note added to the scale, which the Lord hath made fuller, stronger and more glorious. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I offer my goat as he browses the vine, bless the Lord from chambering and drunkeness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is a traveling for the glory of God without going to Italy or France. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless the children of Asher for the evil I did them and the good I might have received at their hands. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I rejoice like a worm in the rain in him that cherishes and from him that tramples. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am ready for the trumpet and alarm to fight, to die and to rise again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the banish'd of the Lord shall come about again, for so he hath prepared for them. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For sincerity is a jewel which is pure and transparent, eternal and inestimable. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For my hands and my feet are perfect as the sublimity of Naphtali and the felicity of Asher. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the names and number of animals are as the name and number of the stars. -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray the Lord Jesus to translate my MAGNIFICAT into verse and represent it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless the Lord Jesus from the bottom of Royston Cave to the top of King's Chapel. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am a little fellow, which is intitled to the great mess by the benevolence of God my father. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I this day made over my inheritance to my mother in consideration of her infirmities. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I this day made over my inheritance to my mother in consideration of her age. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I this day made over my inheritance to my mother in consideration of her poverty. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless the thirteenth of August, in which I had the grace to obey the voice of Christ in my conscience. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless the thirteenth of August, in which I was willing to run all hazards for the sake of the name of the Lord. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless the thirteenth of August, in which I was willing to be called a fool for the sake of Christ. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I lent my flocks and my herds and my lands at once unto the Lord. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For nature is more various than observation tho' observers be innumerable. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Agricola is Γηουργος . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God to bless POLLY in the blessing of Naomi and assign her to the house of DAVID. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am in charity with the French who are my foes and Moabites because of the Moabitish woman. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For my Angel is always ready at a pinch to help me out and to keep me up. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For CHRISTOPHER must slay the Dragon with a PHEON's head. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For they have seperated me and my bosom, whereas the right comes by setting us together. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For silly fellow! silly fellow! is against me and belongeth neither to me nor my family. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he that scorneth the scorner hath condescended to my low estate. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Abiah is the father of Joab and Joab of all Romans and English Men. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For they pass by me in their tour, and the good Samaritan is not yet come. -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God in the behalf of TRINITY COLLEGE in CAMBRIDGE and the society of PURPLES in LONDON. -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I have a nephew CHRISTOPHER to whom I implore the grace of God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God bless the CAM -- Mr HIGGS and Mr and Mrs WASHBOURNE as the drops of the dew. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God bless the king of Sardinia and make him an instrument of his peace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am possessed of a cat, surpassing in beauty, from whom I take occasion to bless Almighty God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God for the professors of the University of Cambridge to attend and to amend. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Fatherless Children and widows are never deserted of the Lord. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God be gracious to the house of Stuart and consider their afflictions. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God be gracious to the seed of Virgil to Mr GOODMAN SMITH of King's and Joseph STUD. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I give God the glory that I am a son of ABRAHAM a PRINCE of the house of my fathers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For my brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks that pass away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God for my retreat at CANBURY, as it was the place of the nativity of my children. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God to give them the food which I cannot earn for them any otherwise than by prayer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God bless the Chinese which are of ABRAHAM and the Gospel grew with them at the first. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God in the honey of the sugar-cane and the milk of the cocoa. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God in the strength of my loins and for the voice which he hath made sonorous. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For tis no more a merit to provide for oneself, but to quit all for the sake of the Lord. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is no invention but the gift of God, and no grace like the grace of gratitude. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For grey hairs are honourable and tell every one of them to the glory of God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless the Lord Jesus for the memory of GAY, POPE and SWIFT. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all good words are from GOD, and all others are cant. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am enabled by my ascent and the Lord haith raised me above my Peers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God bless my lord CLARENDON and his seed for ever. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is silver in my mines and I bless God that it is rather there then in my coffers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I blessed God in St James's Park till I routed all the company. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the officers of the peace are at variance with me, and the watchman smites me with his staff. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am the seed of the WELCH WOMAN and speak the truth from my heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For they lay wagers touching my life. -- God be gracious to the winners. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the piety of Rizpah is imitable in the Lord -- wherefore I pray for the dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Lord is my ROCK and I am the bearer of his CROSS. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am like a frog in the brambles, but the Lord hath put his whole armour upon me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I was a Viper-catcher in my youth and the Lord delivered me from his venom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I rejoice that I attribute to God, what others vainly ascribe to feeble man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am ready to die for his sake -- who lay down his life for all mankind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the son of JOSHUA shall prevail against the servant of Gideon -- Good men have their betters, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For my seed shall worship the Lord JESUS as numerous and musical as the grashoppers of Paradise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God to turn the council of Ahitophel into foolishness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the learning of the Lord increases daily, as the sun is an improving angel. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I pray God for a reformation amonst the women and the restoration of the veil. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For beauty is better to look upon than to meddle with and tis good for a man not to know a woman. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Lord Jesus made him a nosegay and blessed it and he blessed the inhabitants of flowers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a faithful friend is the medicine of life, but a neighbour in the Lord is better than he. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I stood up betimes in behalf of LIBERTY, PROPERTY and NO EXCISE. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For they began with grubbing up my trees and now they have excluded the planter. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am the Lord's builder and free and accepted MASON in CHRIST JESUS. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God in all gums and balsams and every thing that ministers relief to the sick. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Sun's at work to make me a garment and the Moon is at work for my wife. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For tall and stately are against me, but humiliation on humiliation is on my side. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I have a providential acquaintance with men who bear the names of animals. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God to Mr Lion Mr Cock Mr Cat Mr Talbot Mr Hart Mrs Fysh Mr Grub, and Miss Lamb. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For they throw my horns in my face and reptiles make themselves wings against me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God for the immortal soul of Mr Pigg of DOWNHAM in NORFOLK. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I fast this day even the 31st of August N.S. to prepare for the SABBATH of the Lord. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the bite of an Adder is cured by its greese and the malice of my enemies by their stupidity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God in SHIPBOURNE FAIRLAWN the meadows the brooks and the hills. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For th adversary hath exasperated the very birds against me, but the Lord sustain'd me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God for my Newcastle friends the voice of the raven and heart of the oak. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless God for every feather from the wren in the sedge to the CHERUBS and their MATES.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christopher+Smart">Christopher Smart</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div 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