Social Commentaries
The duty of meditation
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Those beasts that serv'd for legall sacrifice,
Were such as chew'd the cud: but men (more wise)
Should thankefully record and meditate
Of his high power, that did all create:
Else, lesse perhaps than things with hoofe and horne
They God adore, and th' universe adorne.
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