160 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



Under these heads he instanced such hymns as 

 those beginning with the lines " It was not, then, 

 a poet's dream ; " " Farewell, thou vase of splen- 

 dour ; " " In vain our fancy strives to paint ; " 

 " Mistaken souls that dream of heaven." 



Verses which in certain hymns had equal claim 

 to be admitted with the rest, and had been omitted 

 in some other collections, he restored in his. Other 

 hymns, again, which were generally restricted in 

 their use to certain Church seasons, were made 

 available at all times when it was found possible 

 to do so. " Those, therefore," Jie said, " which are 

 only suitable to those seasons are arranged for them, 

 and those which are also suitable to them, though 

 not solely so, may be selected at any time from 

 the general list without their use at other times 

 being precluded except at the expense of the 

 Church system." 



His interest in hymnology was kept up for many 

 years, and only a few years before his death he con- 

 tributed a selection from various sources of hymn- 

 verses for each day of the year to the Churcli 

 Evangelist, "for the sons and daughters of the 

 Church." It was, too, a long-cherished wish of his 

 that a " Book of Common Praise," as a companion 

 to the " Book of Common Prayer," should be issued 

 by authority, and he once, if not more than once, 

 petitioned the Convocation of the York Province to 

 take the matter up. 



Another little work of a similar character similar, 

 I mean, in so far as it was intended for use in his 



