He wrote a good many poems on religious themes, which were published in magazines and newspapers but were never collected in a volume. The Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868, included four of his hymns, viz: 1. _Down toward the twilight drifting_, (Sunset) 2. _Saviour, when thy bread we break_, (Communion) 3. _Thou art my morning, God of light_, (Day) 4. _Thou art, O God! my East. In thee I dawned_, In Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., this is entitled “The Compass,” with the statement, “Several mistakes in this hymn, as it is printed in the Hymn and Tune Book, are here corrected by Mr. Robbins.” Julian’s _Dictionary_, p. 967, also cites one beginning 5. _Thou art our father! thou of God the Son_ (Christ) but it is a religious poem rather than a hymn and there is no evidence that it was included in any hymn book. J. 967 Revised H.W.F. Sargent, Lucius Manlius, Boston, Massachusetts, June 25, 1786—June 2, 1867, Boston. A layman of independent means, author of many articles advocating temperance. His temperance hymn beginning _Slavery and death the cup contains_ “was written during the Washingtonian Temperance Revival” and appeared in Adams’ and Chapin’s Unitarian _Hymns for Christian Devotion_, Boston, 1846. In the American Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, 1878 the first line is altered to read _Bondage and death the cup contains_, The hymn is included, with the original wording, in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_, 1895. J. 1061 H.W.F.