WorkChristopher Smart

“Father of light, conduct my feet" [Hymn XXXII, 'Divine Guidance'], in Hymns for the Amusement of Children”

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Documented 1849

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Letter to William Henry Channing

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“Father of light, conduct my feet Through life's dark, dangerous road; Let each advancing step still bring Me nearer to my God.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Fuller quotes a childhood hymn beginning "Father of light, conduct my feet," identified as written by Christopher Smart and published in his Hymns for the Amusement of Children; she describes the lines as "always recurring" from her habitual religious education and qualifies her praise by calling them "clumsy."