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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a toad enjoys a finer prospect than another creature to compensate his lack. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tho' toad I am the object of man's hate. <br>Yet better am I than a reprobate. who has the worst of prospects. <br>For there are stones, whose constituent particles are little toads. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the spiritual musick is as follows. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is the thunder-stop, which is the voice of God direct. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the rest of the stops are by their rhimes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the trumpet rhimes are sound bound, soar more and the like. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Shawm rhimes are lawn fawn moon boon and the like. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the harp rhimes are sing ring string and the like. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the cymbal rhimes are bell well toll soul and the like. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the flute rhimes are tooth youth suit mute and the like. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the dulcimer rhimes are grace place beat heat and the like. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Clarinet rhimes are clean seen and the like. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Bassoon rhimes are pass, class and the like. God be gracious to Baumgarden. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the dulcimer are rather van fan and the like and grace place &c are of the bassoon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For beat heat, weep peep &c are of the pipe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For every word has its marrow in the English tongue for order and for delight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the dissyllables such as able table &c are the fiddle rhimes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all dissyllables and some trissyllables are fiddle rhimes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the relations of words are in pairs first. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the relations of words are sometimes in oppositions. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the relations of words are according to their distances from the pair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there be twelve cardinal virtues the gifts of the twelve sons of Jacob. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Reuben is Great. God be gracious to Lord Falmouth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Simeon is Valiant. God be gracious to the Duke of Somerset. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Levi is Pious. God be gracious to the Bishop of London. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Judah is Good. God be gracious to Lord Granville. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Dan is Clean -- neat, dextrous, apt, active, compact. God be gracious to Draper. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Naphtali is sublime -- God be gracious to Chesterfield. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Gad is Contemplative -- God be gracious to Lord Northampton. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Ashur is Happy -- God be gracious to George Bowes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Issachar is strong -- God be gracious to the Duke of Dorsett. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Zabulon is Constant -- God be gracious to Lord Bath. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Joseph is Pleasant -- God be gracious to Lord Bolingbroke. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Benjamin is Wise -- God be gracious to Honeywood. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all Foundation is from God depending. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the two Universities are the Eyes of England. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Cambridge is the right and the brightest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Pembroke Hall was founded more in the Lord than any College in Cambridge. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For mustard is the proper food of birds and men are bound to cultivate it for their use. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For they that study the works of God are peculiarly assisted by his Spirit. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all the creatures mentiond by Pliny are somewhere or other extant to the glory of God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Rye is food rather for fowls than men. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Rye-bread is not taken with thankfulness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the lack of Rye may be supplied by Spelt. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For languages work into one another by their bearings. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the power of some animal is predominant in every language. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the power and spirit of a CAT is in the Greek. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the sound of a cat is in the most useful preposition êáô' åõ÷çí . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the pleasantry of a cat at pranks is in the language ten thousand times over. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For JACK UPON PRANCK is in the performance of gåñé together or seperate. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Clapperclaw is in the grappling of the words upon one another in all the modes of versification. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the sleekness of a Cat is in his áãëáéçöé . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Greek is thrown from heaven and falls upon its feet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Greek when distracted from the line is sooner restored to rank and rallied into some form than any other. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the purring of a Cat is his ôñõæåé . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For his cry is in ïõáé , which I am sorry for. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Mouse (Mus) prevails in the Latin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Edi-mus, bibi-mus, vivi-mus -- ore-mus. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Mouse is a creature of great personal valour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For -- this is a true case -- Cat takes female mouse from the company of male -- male mouse will not depart, but stands threatning and daring. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For this is as much as to challenge, if you will let her go, I will engage you, as prodigious a creature as you are. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Mouse is of an hospitable disposition. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For bravery and hospitality were said and done by the Romans rather than others. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For two creatures the Bull and the Dog prevail in the English. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all the words ending in ble are in the creature. Invisi-ble, Incomprehensi-ble, ineffa-ble, A-ble. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Greek and Latin are not dead languages, but taken up and accepted for the sake of him that spake them. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For can is (canis) is cause and effect a dog. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the English is concise and strong. Dog and Bull again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Newton's notion of colours is áëïãïò unphilosophical. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the colours are spiritual. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For WHITE is the first and the best. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there are many intermediate colours, before you come to SILVER. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the next colour is a lively GREY. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the next colour is BLUE. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the next is GREEN of which there are ten thousand distinct sorts. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the next is YELLOW which is more excellent than red, tho Newton makes red the prime. God be gracious to John Delap. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For RED is the next working round the Orange. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Red is of sundry sorts till it deepens to BLACK. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For black blooms and it is PURPLE. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For purple works off to BROWN which is of ten thousand acceptable shades. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the next is PALE. God be gracious to William Whitehead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For pale works about to White again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">NOW that colour is spiritual appears inasmuch as the blessing of God upon all things descends in colour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the blessing of health upon the human face is in colour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the blessing of God upon purity is in the Virgin's blushes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the blessing of God in colour is on him that keeps his virgin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I saw a blush in Staindrop Church, which was of God's own colouring. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it was the benevolence of a virgin shewn to me before the whole congregation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the blessing of God upon the grass is in shades of Green visible to a nice observer as they light upon the surface of the earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the blessing of God unto perfection in all bloom and fruit is by colouring. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For from hence something in the spirit may be taken off by painters. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Painting is a species of idolatry, tho' not so gross as statuary. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it is not good to look with earning upon any dead work. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For by so doing something is lost in the spirit and given from life to death. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For BULL in the first place is the word of Almighty God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is a creature of infinite magnitude in the height. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is the model of every beast of the field in the height. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For they are blessed intelligences and all angels of the living God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there are many words under Bull. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Bul the Month is under it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Sea is under Bull. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Brook is under Bull. God be gracious to Lord Bolingbroke. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Rock is under Bull. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Bullfinch is under Bull. God be gracious to the Duke of Cleveland. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For God, which always keeps his work in view has paited a Bullfinch in the heart of a stone. God be gracious to Gosling and Canterbury. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Bluecap is under Bull. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Humming Bird is under Bull. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Beetle is under Bull. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Toad is under bull. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Frog is under Bull, which he has a delight to look at. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Pheasant-eyed Pink is under Bull. Blessed Jesus R4NK EL. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Bugloss is under Bull. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Bugle is under Bull. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Oxeye is under Bull. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Fire is under Bull. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For is this done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he rolls upon prank to work it in. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For this he performs in ten degrees. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For first he looks upon his fore-paws to see if they are clean. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the fore paws extended. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For fifthly he washes himself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Sixthly he rolls upon wash. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Eighthly he rubs himself against a post. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Ninthly he looks up for his instructions. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Tenthly he goes in quest of food. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For having consider'd God and himself he will consider his neighbour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it chance. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when his day's work is done his business more properly begins. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he keeps the Lord's watch in the night against the adversary. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is of the tribe of Tiger. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he will not do destruction, if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he purrs in thankfulness, when God tells him he's a good Cat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For every house is incompleat without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For every family had one cat at least in the bag. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the English Cats are the best in Europe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is the cleanest in the use of his fore-paws of any quadrupede. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the dexterity of his defence is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is tenacious of his point. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he knows that God is his Saviour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is of the Lord's poor and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually -- Poor Jeoffry! poor Jeoffry! the rat has bit thy throat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the divine spirit comes about his body to sustain it in compleat cat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For his tongue is exceeding pure so that it has in purity what it wants in musick. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is docile and can learn certain things. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he can set up with gravity which is patience upon approbation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he can jump over a stick which is patience upon proof positive. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he can jump from an eminence into his master's bosom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he can catch the cork and toss it again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is hated by the hypocrite and miser. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the former is affraid of detection. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the latter refuses the charge. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he camels his back to bear the first notion of business. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he made a great figure in Egypt for his signal services. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he killed the Icneumon-rat very pernicious by land. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For his ears are so acute that they sting again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For from this proceeds the passing quickness of his attention. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For by stroaking of him I have found out electricity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I perceived God's light about him both wax and fire. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance, which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, tho he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than any other quadrupede. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he can tread to all the measures upon the musick. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he can swim for life. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he can creep.</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>
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