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Hearts Upright & Sound Receive the Seed

In a series of parables, 18th century poet Christopher Smart sought to make Jesus’s parables accessible to the expanding middle class.

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Crown My Head with Ample Square-Cap

Christopher Smart’s “On Taking a Bachelor’s Degree” is deliberately excessively self-congratulatory. Still, students should feel proud of themselves for graduating.

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