Part 191 (1/2)

_Example III--The Shepherd's Hymn_

”Oh, when | I rove | the des | -ert waste, | and 'neath | the hot | sun pant, The Lord | shall be | my Shep | -herd then, | he will | not let | me want; He'll lead | reen, And where | the gen | -tle wa | -ters rove, | the qui | -et hills | between

And when | the sav | -age shall | pursue, | and in | his grasp | I sink, He will | prepare | the feast | fordrink, And save | th | -en e lands, and crown | my head | with oil

With such | a Shep | -herd to | protect, | to guide | and guard | ood, | and keep | from ev | -'ry ill, _Surely_ | I shall | not turn | aside, | and scorn | his kind | -ly care, But keep | the path | he points | me out, | and dwell | for ev | -er there”

W GILMORE SIMMS: _North American Reader_, p 376

_Example IV--”The Far, Far Fast”--First six Lines_

”It was | a drea | -est and | the last, And still | it ling | -ers bright | and lone | amid | the drear | -y past; When I | was sick | and sad | at heart | and faint | with grief | and care, It threw | its ra | -diant smile | athwart | the shad | -ows of | despair: And still | when falls | the hour | of gloom | upon | this way | -ward breast, Unto | THE FAR, | FAR EAST | I turn | for sol | -ace and | for rest”

_Edinburgh Journal_; and _The Exaht Lines froilds | _yon heaven_, how love | -ly it | appears!

And ht | a world | of war | -fare and | of tears?

Shall hu | -lo | _-rious world_ | of God, And beau | -ty, wis | -dom, hap | -piness, | sleep with | the tram | -pled sod?

Shall peace | ne'er lift | her ban | -ner up, | shall truth | and rea | -son cry, And men | oppress | them doorse | than an | -cient tyr | -anny?

Shall all | the les | -sons tiht | in vain; And earth | be steeped | in hu | -roan | with hu | -man pain?”

ALONZO LEWIS: _Freedom's Amulet_, Dec 6, 1848

_Example VI--”Greek Funeral Chant”--First four of sixty-four Lines_

”A wail | was heard | around | the bed, | the death | -bed of | the young; Amidst | her tears, | the Fu | _-neral Chant_ | a

'I-an | -this dost | thou sleep?-- | Thou sleepst!-- | but this | is not | the rest, The breath | -ing, warm, | and ros | -y calm, | I've pil | -low'd on | my breast!'”

FELICIA HEMANS: _Poetical Works_, Vol ii, p 37

Everett observes, ”The _Iliad_ was translated into thisVersif_, p 68 Prior, who has a ballad of one hundred and eighty such lines, intireat antiquity of the verse Measures of this length, though not very uncommon, are much less frequently used than shorter ones A practice has long prevailed of dividing this kind of verse into alternate lines of four and of three feet, thus:--

”To such | as fear | thy ho | -ly name, myself | I close | -ly join; To all | who their | obe | -dient wills to thy | con”

_Psal to the critics, is the ht change of setting a capital at the head of each line, it beco also adapted to hys, and, th, this stanza, or a similar one more ornalish poetry

The following are a few popular examples:--

”When all | thysoul | surveys, Transport | -ed with | the view | I'm lost In won | -der, love, | and praise”

_Addison's Hymn of Gratitude_

”John Gil | -pin was | a cit | -izen Of cred | -it and | renown, A train | -band cap | -tain eke | was he Of fam | -ous Lon | -don town”

_Cowper's Poe | our no | -ble king, Our lives | and safe | -ties all; A wo | -ful hunt | -ing once | there did In Chev | -y Chase | befall,”

_Later Reading of Chevy Chase_