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THEIR AUTHORS AND ORIGIN. 339

" timely happy, timely wise." No. 933.

This is part of his much-admired " Morning " hymn. It has sixteen verses, and hegins thus

" Hues of the rich, unfolding morn."

" Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear." No. 946. This is part of his " Evening " hymn, beginning " Tis gone, that bright and orbed blaze,"

a piece of fourteen verses.

Hymns 354 and 593 in the " New Congregational Hymn Book" are erroneously attributed to Keble. They are by his friend, Pro fessor Joseph Anstice, M.A., whose hymns were published by his widow in 1836 ; vide under his name.

��AAEON CROSSLEY HOBAET SEYMOUE.

BORN 1789.

THE following particulars of the history of this eminent literary character we have taken from a MS. autobiography with which he has favoured us, and which we regret our space does not allow us to give in full.

Mr. Seymour was born in the county of Limerick, December 19th, 1789. He was the eldest son of the late Rev. John Crossley Seymour, M.A., Vicar of Cahirelly, in the diocese of Cashel, a scion of the Seymour family, which had in former days its ducal and royal alliances. Mr. Seymour s mother was eldest daughter of the Rev. Edward Wight, M.A., rector of Meelick, Limerick, a descendant of an ancient family residing near Guild- ford, Surrey ; and the name Hobart has been taken by the subject of this sketch because he is, along with the Rev. Sir John Hobart C. Seymour, Bart., a representative of the family arising from the

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