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Poetry belongs to youth - to the youth of a writer, of a nation, of the world. We should therefore expect to hnd, as is the case, that the earlier literature of the race and of nations contains its perfected poems. In the Old. Testament are to be found the grandest models for all poetic thought. Hope and trust are the gift of childhood, and they are the purest inspirers of imagination and of spiritual insight. Poetic prophecy reached its culmination with the ancient Hebrews, and lyric poetry found its perfect ex pression in the Psalms. The highest reach of pathos and triumph, both of feeling and imagery, is embodied in the work of an unknown time and author; dramatic and epic poetry are combined in the sublimity of the book of Job. The Iliad, the Vedas, and the Eddas also belong to the times of earliest inspiration.
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