This second hymn has been included in a number of later hymnbooks, among them _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. J. 379 H.W.F. Follen, Mrs. Eliza Lee (Cabot), Boston, Massachusetts, August 15, 1787—January 26, 1860, Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1828 she married Dr. Charles Follen, a German scholar who had sought freedom in this country and who was then teaching German Literature and Ecclesiastical History at Harvard. Later he was minister of the Unitarian Church (now called the Follen Church Society) at East Lexington, Massachusetts. Mrs. Follen both before and after her marriage contributed verse and prose articles to various periodicals and published a number of small books, including _Hymns for Children_, Boston, 1825; _Poems_, 1839, and, while she was in England in 1854, another small volume for children, entitled _The Lark and the Linnet_. These books contain some translations from the German and the versions of a few Psalms. Her best known hymns are 1. _How sweet to be allowed to pray_, (Resignation) This first appeared in _The Christian Disciple_, September 1818, then in her _Poems_, 1839, entitled “Thy will be done.” 2. _How sweet upon this sacred day_ (Sunday) In _The Christian Disciple_, September, 1828, and in _Poems_, entitled “Sabbath Day.” 3. _Lord deliver, thou canst save_, (Prayer for the Slave) In _Songs of the Free_, 1836; in Adams and Chapin’s (Universalist) _Hymns for Christian Devotion_, Boston, 1845; in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; and in other collections, but not included in her _Poems_. 4. _God, thou art good, each perfumed flower_, (God In Nature) This first appeared in _Hymns for Children_, Boston, 1825, beginning with a defective line (7s instead of 8s) (a) _God is good! each perfumed flower_ and altered as above in her _Poems_ and in _The Lark and the Linnet_. This hymn underwent further transformations in England. In Emily Taylor’s _Sabbath Recreations_, 1826, it was included as an original piece never before printed, and signed “E.L.C.”, the initials of Mrs. Follen’s maiden name. Possibly she sent a ms. copy to Miss Taylor before it appeared in Boston. In J. R. Beard’s British Unitarian _Collection of Hymns_, 1837, it appears as (b) _Yes, God is good! each perfumed flower_, J. H. Gurney, the Anglican hymn writer and editor, included it in his Lutterworth _Collection of Hymns for Public Worship_, 1838, but, while retaining Mrs. Follen’s opening stanza, rewrote about half of the remaining four stanzas, and in his later _Marylebone Collection_, 1851, rewrote it further, beginning it (c) _Yes, God is Good.—in earth and sky,_