April 11, 2022 Christopher Smart, David Burke, Elsie Esterhuysen, The Ladies' Village Improvement Society Cookbook by Florence Fabricant, and the Desegregation Commemorative Garden

The Daily Gardener · Apr 11, 2022 · 17m

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1722 Birth of Christopher Smart, English poet. He was known for his pen name as the midwife "Mrs. Mary Midnight."

The back half of Christopher's life was spent in madhouses or prisons. He wrote his long religious poem, Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the Lamb), in a debtor's prison. It includes the words,

For the flowers are great blessings.

For there is a language of flowers.

For the flowers are peculiarly the poetry…