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Excerpt from The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, With Original Notes, Textual Index, Etc.; Two Volumes in One; Vol I. The Evangel, Vol. II. The Light of the World
F Lives of Christ, the present age is singularly prolific, but none of these are in verse. And yet it would be difficult to assign any good reason why a poetic Life should not be written - a veritable Life, not a Christiad. The Four Gospels, alike in the inspired Original and in our half-inspired Version, are semi poetic, and in a sense epical. Who has not felt, in read ing his English Bible, the rhythmic charm Of its Simple, sweet and melodious prose, rising in the lyric parts - ih a manner so easy and natural as scarcely to be perceived, like the great ocean lifted upward by the tide - into the sounding sublimities and solemn organ harmonics of Hebrew verse - which has this divine peculiarity among others, that it does not, like the great master-pieces of Latin and Greek, for example, cease to be poetry when literally translated.
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