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Seek not Courts

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  • Dec 21, 2018

Seek not in courts, nor palaces,

Nor royal curtains draw;

But search the stable,

see your God, Extended on the straw.

William Billings, “Methinks I See a Heav’nly Host,” in The Singing Master’s Assistant (1778). The full text available here.