Christopher Smart Quote

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.


Jubilate Agno (c.1758–63) Fragment B, l. 30


For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.