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This is a fragment
from a long poem

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that I love very much,
written by Christopher

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Smart in the lunatic
asylum, about 1755.

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He says, "For the air
is purified by prayer,

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which is made aloud
and with all our might.

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For a loud prayer is
good for weak lungs

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and for a vitiated throat.

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For sound is propagated in the
spirit and in all directions.

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For the voice of a figure is
complete in all its parts.

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For a man speaks himself
from the crown of his head

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to the soul of his feet.

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For a lion roars himself
complete from head to tail.

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For all these things are
seen in the spirit, which

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makes the beauty of prayer,
for all whispers and unmusical

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sounds in general
are of the adversary.

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For I will hiss, saith the Lord,
is God's denunciation of death.

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For applause or the
clapping of the hands

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is the natural action
of a man on the descent

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of the glory of God.

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For Earth, which
is an intelligence,

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hath a voice and a propensity
to speak in all her parts.

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For echo is the
soul of the voice,

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exerting itself
in hollow places.

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For echo is greatest
in churches, and where

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she can assist in prayer.

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For a good voice hath
its own echo with it,

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and it is attainable
by much supplication.

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For the voice is from the
body and from the spirit,

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and it is a body
and it is a spirit."

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