"When up the imperceptible ascent / Of growing years, led by thy hand, I rose, / Perception's gradual light, that ever dawns / Insensibly to day, thou didst vouchsafe, / And teach me by that reason thou inspir'dst."
On the Omniscience of the Supreme Being
6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1752, 1756, 1772, 1773, 1787, 1791).<br>
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Text from <u>The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).<br>
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See <u>On the Omniscience of the Supreme Being. A Poetical Essay. By Christopher Smart, M.A. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall in the University of Cambridge.</u>(Cambridge],  M.DCC.LII. [1752). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3313824171&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;.<br>
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Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., <u>Christopher Smart: Selected Poems</u> (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).<br>
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Note, collected in <u>MusÃ¦ SeatonianÃ¦. A Complete Collection of the Cambridge Prize Poems</u> (1772, 1773, 1787).