The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-06
! .aes or LITERATURE

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= sa ns.,m. we're the hymns of
= ~ IAN our English name I'M
e ~ Is our Bibles are generally ''.a. ~
Nv .asr does not know OUTSIDE
~. whether what he reads
q version we're written as pO :. y
W. -. .sstber he is to read 1t as
4 , nor contribution perhaps.
lns .,ssd version to the popular
stt fe,ns,nn,s Il the arrangement IN
ne p.s't me poetry in each testa-
IA PAGE y. ,sry readers eye IL LOOKS
tit % 49, yeader sees that IL rs
ry tsels written by some poet
III was good that 1t has survived
rg YES y lime Every one knows
stians ~ Il as he reads poetry
rm Is.t hook of Deuteronomy,
end @ Messing of Moses, before
btMs.sd as a poem--reaus'
4 came from SINAI,
n ~ seir unto ten
Nv, wrih nom Mount Parah ., bo,v
IA. with ten thousands u
s.p, hand was a fiery la" unto
II
/. ode or song of triumph goes & es'
" clarence to each OF the tweis ,',
' were form of the INES susses.s
w ~. I'm he old prosiac text useu pg
W. T'rsIlsh translators suggests 'h'
.,,rs of an annalist..
asn TIA the Lord came from Slhai,
d Wy, ,, seir unto them; He shlned
W nv paran, and He came Win
ss sp ~ saints; from His right hand
ssry law unto them
,,i..,on which prepared our new
,vsrsIon says OF the prophets that
4. n, extended to the prophetieai
4. arrangement in lines, because
~ these books lis rather OF
.ssct lofty and impassioned prose,
.,,a,y lyrical passages. d" Lofty and
y III, sross comes very near to poetry
s' .s..rsl the prophetical books oil
t san could be ranked as poet.
!. means everything from me fr4phe'
K ne end of the Old IestamehV' Al.
NJ roughly, we may say that lhe
Il he Old Testament, the DOORS
= d far as Esther N the usuai ar.
Y. are narrative or historical tna,
N noInt. beginning with the book o.
= sre poetlcal The book OF JOB /;
.u,s 4 dramatic poem. The Psalm:
s ~ OF several odes and hymns
~ authors In many centuries. Ther
NJ 4. Proverbs, which are cast in poet
=. y i ,he book OF Ecclesiastes. which
,-sis5 AS prose in the revised yer.
Essusatly marked with the charac
Hebrew poetry; The Song o
.srb has ali the characteristics o
s.try and then the prophets.
4. I'D or historical part are man.
y Az Such is that which has beer
uosps. such Is the song of Deborah
proobst.c books, on the other hand
!, sometimes fragment of history
baking rather roughly, as | SAID, IN
a may be called historical and tn
Reiieal
Irpossible in single paper like thi
ito any detail as to the distinction
!, De external form of Hebrew poetr
kn 10 which we are accustomed.
n enough to say that it does nc
d have had any rhyme, and that tn
d The verses Ia not to be strict
by the counting of syllables. w
to little of the original pronunciat.o
words to say whether what he ca
.y' or what We call accent wa
csd ID the composition.
POPULARITY is observed in which I'll
n poets INDUCED themselves muc
frequently than those of the wester
n Il Is generally spoken OF as 'pal
This word means the method
stna BY which one line or verse tak'
language or perhaps the idea of
Ks verse and repeats IL, with more {
liraton, In other words. The rte
brew odes or songs frequently use
rsthod In arranging verses whiC
M sung alternately by differel
There Is resemblance to the stropi
y catastrophe OF the Greek choruse
NJ The alternate verses in the Hebre
re much shorter than those of Il
sss one choir on one side of temp
Ravens declare the glory OF God"
nother on the other side responding
y Ornament showeth His handiwork
"a Day unto day uttereth speech
ltsledge."
~ There is no speech nor language
saorus: Their voice can not
~ Their line is gone out throul
Mrth"
hsrus sand their words to the e
vurd.n
Ansrlca the late DR., Hastings intr
many churches renewal of su
~ singing. Those who study the su
!! wen read his little treatlses upon
NJ feature which occasionally appee
wv poetry Is the reference, LITERAL
:suer which the poems are write
sauce, the ll9th psalm consists
Sso slarlas, each of eight lines.
LA the first verse consists of liz
- Win the letter A, the second vel
osslnning with the letter B, a
uleies the Hebrew letter is print
Nshning of these separate sub
" q ingenuity, sometimes showi
seiosties, and sometimes in otl
Tpsars In many Of the poems.
~
an NE spirit OF Hebrew poetry VIII
Ns value. an infinite value to
pard's Tyre is mightier than
M. Ms very likely many poems or
N y the Hebrew language VIII
I'm tsus down 10 us which were
n, N = me divine spirit ak those wh
~, There is no reason why los
n az .ksai nave written love songs, Y
| ,srs sssi not have written ballads, '
~ IeNiogals should not have writ
oe called didactic poems,
h. ~ wen as elsewhere. But
ueo,.' asoh, the poems which surN
es,ls. meaout exception, poems a.
si,s God. The writer looks at
,.ls,sr nnleh he has to deal with
,.s s,a,ue to the infinite life which c
NJ which gives effect TO cal
s scr and strength of what h,
rs, s.e wrote little sketch in wi
Hsrspse, imagined, a meeting
s,ry !, snd David, wanted to cont
xt,.us y. mo Greeks with the poetry
d, ss., ! made Homer sing his desc
Ia n ss,.s'otm, and David, in comp
\ y MN the i47th psalm:
rsss,ssn snow like wool;
srsth NE hoar-frost like ashes:
ID rsSstn His ice like morsels;
nis,s -no before His cold?
<Sts i pitn His wind and melteth th
NJ ans wind to blow and the wa
b = ans He" said one OF the yc
nc ffnitaS - .