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Excerpt from The American Metrical Psalter
Almost as soon as the English Bible and the English Common Prayer, the Psalter in English metre became also the possession of our fathers. It was a necessity, because our language, and those other languages which are its nearest kindred, demand for songs which are to be the voice of the people, the charms, subordinate though they be, of meas ure and of rhyme. N o workman at his toil, no maiden in her hour of gladness or of sad ness, no soldier on the march, ever thinks of Singing any thing but verse. The grander music of the skilful choir, appealing to the highly educated taste of a few, may disregard modulations so simple; but the popular bal lad and hymn must keep pace with the com mon feelings of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
