Livermore, Sarah White, Wilton, New Hampshire, July 20, 1789—July 3, 1874, Wilton. She was an aunt of A. A. Livermore, _q.v._, and was a school teacher for most of her life. She contributed two hymns to the _Cheshire Collection_, 1844, viz: 1. _Glory to God, and peace on earth_, (Christmas) 2. _Our pilgrim brethren, dwelling far_, (Mission) These passed into a few other collections. She wrote a number of others for various church occasions, but they have never been collected for publication. J. 680 H.W.F. Long, Hon. John Davis (1838-1915) was born in Buckfield, Maine, October 27, 1838, and died in Hingham, Massachusetts on August 28, 1915. Harvard, A.B. 1857, L.L.D. 1880. He was Governor of Massachusetts, 1880-1883, and Secretary of the Navy, 1897-1902. A member of the First Parish (Unitarian) in Hingham, he wrote one hymn beginning, _The evening winds begin to blow_ which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, but which has not passed into other books. H.W.F. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, D.C.L., Portland, Maine, February 27, 1807—March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. After four years of study in Europe he was appointed to the Chair of Modern Languages at Bowdoin, but removed to Harvard in 1835, upon his election as professor of Modern Languages and Belles-Lettres in the latter College. He retained that Professorship until 1854, when he retired to give himself time for authorship in prose and verse. He became one of the most widely read and beloved poets in the English-speaking world, and after his death a marble bust commemorating him was placed in Westminster Abbey. In the strict sense of the term he was not a hymn-writer, his brother, Samuel Longfellow, _q.v._, twelve years his junior, far surpassing him in this field, but hymn-book editors have culled selections from his poems which they could use, as follows: 1. _Ah, what a sound! The infinite fierce chorus_, From his poem “The Arsenal at Springfield,” published in _The Belfry of Bruges_, 1845. Four stanzas, beginning as above, are included in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935. In S. Longfellow’s and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1848, the selected stanzas from this poem begin _Down the dark future through long generations_, and the hymn appeared in this form in other collections. 2. _Alas, how poor and little worth_, Tr. from the Spanish of Don Jorge Manrique, (d. 1479), in Longfellow’s _Poetry of Spain_, 1833. 3. _All are architects of fate_, The first three stanzas of Longfellow’s poem, “The Builders,” written in 1846. Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. 4. _All is of God; If he but wave his hand._