‘The morning’s dawn, the shades of eve,’ but whether this enormous blunder was committed by the copyist or the pressman I am left to conjecture.” After Adams’ death his verses, both religious and secular, were published in a small volume entitled _Poems of Religion and Society_, New York, 1848, which ran to a fourth edition in 1854. This collection included the five hymns and 17 metrical Psalms printed in _The Christian Psalmist_, unchanged except that the opening line of each psalm has been substituted for the number of the psalm as its heading. Nor was the misprint which Adams lamented amended. Judged by the conventional standards of his time Adams’ poetry was consistently respectable verse, but without any notable distinction other than that lent to it by the fame of the author. His five hymns are, 1. _Sure to the mansions of the blest_, (Death of Children) This is part of a piece of 20 stanzas, which appeared in the _Monthly Anthology and Boston Review_, January 1807. It is entitled “Lines addressed to a mother on the death of two infants, 19th Sept. 1803, and 19th Decb. 1806.” 2. _Alas! how swift the moments fly_, (The Hour-Glass) Sometimes given as _How swift, alas, the moments fly_, written for the 200^th anniversary of the First Parish Church in Quincy, September 20, 1839. 3. _Hark! ’tis the holy temple bell_, (Sabbath morning) undated 4. _When, o’er the billow-heaving deep_, “A Hymn for the twenty-second of December,” i.e., the coming of the Pilgrim Fathers, undated. 5. _Lord of all worlds, let thanks and praise_, “Written in Sickness;” undated. His metrical versions of the Psalms follow:— 6. _Blest is the mortal whose delight_, Ps. 1 7. _Come let us sing unto the Lord_, Ps. 95 8. _For thee in Zion there is praise_, Ps. 65 9. _My Shepherd is the Lord on high_, Ps. 23 10. _My soul, before thy Maker kneel_, Ps. 103 11. _O, all ye people, clap your hands_, Ps. 47 12. _O God, with goodness all thine own_, Ps. 67 13. _O heal me, Lord, for I am weak_, Ps. 6 14. _O, judge me, Lord, for thou art just_, Ps. 26 15. _O Lord my God! how great thou art_, Ps. 104 16. _O Lord, thy all-discerning eyes_, Ps. 139 17. _O that the race of men would raise_, Ps. 107 18. _Send forth, O God, thy truth and light_, Ps. 43 19. _Sing to Jehovah a new song_, Ps. 98 20. _Sing to the Lord a song of praise_, Ps. 149 21. _Turn to the stars of heaven thine eyes_, Ps. 19 22. _Why should I fear in evil days_, Ps. 49 A few of these hymns and psalms found their way into other collections. Nos. 2 and 3 were included in _Lyra Sacra Americana_; no. 18 is in _Hymnal for American Youth_ and the _American Student Hymnal_; no. 16 is in the Jewish _Union Hymnal for Worship_, 1914.