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Excerpt from The Book of Job: The Poetic Portion Versified, With Due Regard to the Language of the Authorized Version, a Closer Adherence to the Sense of the Revised Versions, and a More Literal Translation of the Hebrew Original
To this end it is quite important to show both to eye and ear that here is a true poem.
Within the last hundred years several translations have with more or less skill presented to the reader something of the ancient form. Recently the prin ter's art has been still more utilized to make visible the curious parallelisms of lines and groups of lines and the symmetry of the whole.
Mere form, however, is not sufficient. A principal basis of most poetry, as of all music, is in sound. To begin each line with a capital, and then utterly dis regard metre, is a mockery. It keeps the word Of promise to the eye, and breaks it to the ear and thence to the soul. Instead of ?oating sympa thetically on rhythmic undulations, the reader is too often made to feel himself balked, jolted, staggered, or even upset, by prosiest discords.
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