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Some of Its Facts and Fanoies. Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l SIT FAITHS POEM OF LOVE.

l Some of Its Facts and Eano1eB. | Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l | ST. FAULTS POEM OF LOVE.
 Among the beautiful prose poems that abound in the Bible, that one of St. Paurs upon Charity" or Love, '' has long been conceded to be one of the most remarkable. The entire thir- teenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, though without rhyme or metre, is a poem; the dignlfied rhythm of its phrases suggesting the stately harmonies of sacred ode.
 A writer in the New York World makes the statement, and claims the merit of the discovery, that all Greek and Latin poets wrote not only in measure but In rhyme, Rhymes that have been considered as merely "acci- dentap' he believes to be due to the spirit of the language in which they wrote part of its natural harmony He says:
 "In old Latin, in old Creek in mod eru Latin and in modern Greek, which are all liquid languages of the most melodtous vowel assonances. the voice at once becomes melodious under the influence of strong feeling Rhyme follows rhyme. and assonance asson- ance, and as the voice Is stressed by pitch of passion, rhymes and asson- ances come out which are hidden by the natural tone. To discover these, to reproduce them in regular order so as to set to immemorial undying music, the deepest truths of the human heart, is to make undying poetry The Greek gospels are full of such short poems, written in rhyme under the influence of this law of language, which is also a law of the human mind. The book of Revelations especially abounds in them, and so do Paul's letters"
 The writer then gives his transla- tion of the greater part of the chapter referred to, a translation that suggests, if 1t does not fully convey, the idea of its surpasslng melody And he asserts that infinitely superior as St. PauPs verse Is to anything in Homer or any other classical poet, It Is modelled close ly on Homer's verse and illustrates the Homerle method.
 The arrangement of the lines of this translation, with the exception of the first verse, has been made by another hand.
 Had I not love,
 Although my voice
 Bade men and angels to rejoice With harmonies of heaven above,
 Alas
 It were in vain
 Alas! But empty sound of tinkllng brass, And naught my gainl
 Had I not love!
 Though were fain Of mysteries and prophecies, And though l knew all seerecies Of earth below and heaven above, And even though my faith doth prove Mighty to move you mountains mass,
 It were in vain. Tn vain, had I not lovei And even though with glad desire,
 My goods give That starving men may take and live;
 Though at the stake, in flame, die for the Redeemer's name, And have not love, it were but shame!
 He in whose mind The heavenly love it's home doth make Will suffer long and still be kind,
 For loves dear sakel Love vaunteth not, for in it's heart No vanity of pride hath part. It moveth all to courtesy;
 It doth not seek It's own; It is not angered easily; t loveth not iniquity;
 It loves the truth alone!
 All things it bears;
 It has all faith
 All hopes it shares,
 Nor doth 1t fail Though railing tongues assail it! Love doth not fail,
 But prophecies,
 And all the lore Of tongues shall cease, And knowledge, too, shall be no more! {
 In this brief day h
 We know in part, 'ut when we perfect are in heart , Our partial knowledge will not last
 But pass away! SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS"