From the poem “The Two Angels,” in his _Birds of Passage_, 1858; included in S. Longfellow’s and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. 5. _Blind Bartimeus at the gate_, From _Miscellaneous Poems_, 1841. Included in G. W. Conder’s 1874 _Appendix_ to the (British) _Leeds Hymn Book_. 6. _Christ to the young man said, “Yet one thing more.”_ Written in 1848 for the ordination of the poet’s younger brother, Samuel Longfellow; published in the author’s _Seaside and Fireside_, 1851, and in H. W. Beecher’s _Plymouth Collection_, 1855, altered to read, _The Saviour said, “Yet one thing more”_ In spite of the occasion for which it was written it is not a hymn but a hortatory poem of five stanzas in a most unusual 10.6.10.6 metre, for which it must have been difficult to find any singable tune. 7. _I heard the bells on Christmas Day_ This carol was written in 1864, for the Sunday School of the Unitarian Church of the Disciples, Boston, of which Rev. James Freeman Clarke was minister. The entire poem, entitled “Christmas Bells,” has seven stanzas, of which 1, 2, 6 and 7 are in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, and in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935. The omitted stanzas contain references to the Civil War, in progress when the carol was written. 8. Into the silent land, A translation from the German poem “Ins Stille Land! Wer Leitet uns hinüber,” by J. G. Salis-Seewis, 1808. Published by Longfellow in _Voices of the Night_, 1840. Included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, and other American collections. 9. _Tell me not in mournful numbers_, Published in _Voices of the Night_, 1839, as “A Psalm of Life; What the heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist.” Included in several hymnals in Great Britain and America. In some collections it begins with the second stanza _Life is real! Life is earnest_ 10. _There is no flock, however watched and tended_ A cento from the author’s _Seaside and Fireside_, 1849. 11. _We have not wings: we may not soar._ In 1850 the poet wrote “The Ladder of St. Augustine,” a poem in twelve stanzas, based upon a quotation from Sermon III, De Ascensione, by St. Augustine of Hippo, “De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus.” (We shall make a ladder out of our vices, if we tread those vices under foot.) The three stanzas of the hymn are, respectively, the seventh, tenth and second stanzas of the poem. H.W.F.