For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

Smart’s lines treat flowers not as mere decoration but as intelligible signs: their forms, cycles, and profusion embody a “sound reasoning” that can be read as evidence of divine order. Calling flowers “the poetry of Christ” fuses natural theology with aesthetics—creation becomes a kind of lyric utterance that expresses Christ’s presence and benevolence in the world. The statement also reflects Smart’s characteristic devotional imagination, in which close attention to animals, plants, and everyday particulars becomes a mode of praise. The emphasis is less on doctrinal argument than on perceiving spiritual meaning through the beauty and patterned variety of nature.