"Yet still let reason thro' the eye of faith / View Him with fearful love; let truth pronounce, / And adoration on her bended knee / With Heav'n-directed hands confess His reign."
On the Eternity of the Supreme Being
3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1750, 1752, 1756, 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 Eternity of the Supreme Being. A Poetical Essay. by Christopher Smart, M. a. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall in the University of Cambridge.</u> (Cambridge : printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University. Sold by W. Thurlbourn in Cambridge, C. Bathurst in Fleet-Street, R. Dodsley at Tullyâ€™s Head in Pall-Mall, London; and J. Hildyard at York, 1750). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T43247">Link to ESTC</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).