Mr. Balfern's hymns have appeared in the Baptist Hymnal ; Psalms & Hymns for the Young; the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book; Songs of Gladness (S. S. Union); Book of Hymns for Sunday School, Lond., Weeks & Co.; Treasury of Sacred Song, Kirkwall, W. Peace; and in a few collections of the Church of England. They include:—
7. Shepherd of those sunlit mountains. The Good Shepherd.
All these hymns were contributed to the Sunday School Union Songs of Gladness, 1871, and from thence have passed into other collections. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.]
-- Excerpt from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)