Burleigh, William Henry, Woodstock, Connecticut, February 12, 1812—March 18, 1871, Brooklyn, New York. He was an editor and publisher working successively in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1837-1843; in Hartford, Connecticut, 1843-1849; in Syracuse, New York, 1849-1854. From 1855-1870 he was Harbor Master of New York. He was a member of the Second Unitarian Church in Brooklyn and an ardent advocate of anti-slavery and temperance reforms. Early in life he began writing hymns and other poems which were printed in various periodicals, but for many of which the date and occasion are impossible to determine. They were collected for publication in a volume entitled _Poems_, Philadelphia, 1841, and this book, enlarged with his later poems, was republished in 1871 after his death, with a biographical notice by his wife. Some of the best were included in the British collection _Lyra Sacra Americana_, 1868, the editor of which, Dr. Cleveland, said, “Most of these beautiful hymns of Mr. Burleigh’s were given to me in ms. by the author.” From this publication they were taken for extensive use in British hymn books. 1. _Abide not in the realm of dreams_, (The Harvest Call) Included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., is a poem of 10 stanzas from which a cento consisting of the first two lines of stanza 1 combined with the second two lines of stanza 2, followed by stanzas 3, 6, 7 and 10 are taken to form a hymn in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. 2. _Fades from the west the farewell light_ (Night) This poem, entitled “A Psalm of Night,” is given in his _Poems_, New York, 1871. Although not in the first edition of _Poems_, 1841, stanzas selected from it came into use as early as 1844. The original is in 5 stanzas of 8 lines. From it the following centos have come into use. (a) _Day unto day uttereth speech_, This consists of stanzas III-V, and is given in the _Christian Hymns_ of the Cheshire Pastoral Association, 1844, as an “Evening Hymn.” (b) _O Holy Father, mid the calm_ This cento consists of stanzas IV-V, and is given in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, and in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. (c) _Not only doth the voiceful day_, Composed of stanzas II-III, in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. Another arrangement beginning with the same stanza is in _Lyra Sacra Americana_. (d) _The brightening dawn and voiceful day_, In the British _Hymnary_, London, 1872, an altered form of (c), with the addition of a doxology. In these various forms the use of this hymn was very extensive. 3. _Father, beneath thy sheltering wing_, (Trust and Peace)