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Folly builds high upon the sand

Author: Christopher Smart Appears in 9 hymnals

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Folly builds high upon the sand

Author: Christopher Smart Hymnal: Sacred Poetry #H.LXXIII (1795)

Folly builds high upon the sand

Author: Christopher Smart Hymnal: Sacred Poetry #aH.LXXIII (1797)

Folly builds high upon the sand

Author: Christopher Smart Hymnal: Sacred Poetry #d113 (1812)

1722 - 1771 Author of "Folly builds high upon the sand" Smart, Christophe, M.A., was born at Shipburn, Kent, in 1722, and educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he gained the Seatonian prize for five years, four of which were in succession, (B.A. 1747.) He removed to London in 1753, and gave some attention to literature: but neglecting both his property and his constitution, he became poor and insane. He died in the King's Bench, 1771. His Poems were published in 2 vols. in 1771. From that work "Father of light conduct my feet" (Divine Guidance), and "I sing of God the mighty Source" [God the Author of All), have been taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)