Excerpt from Horae Germanicae: A Version of German Hymns
The Translator would premise: -
Hymns 28, 46, 81, and 121, were written before he could venture on an imitation of the German double rhyme; and therefore fail to exhibit that trait of their originals. All the rest give the precise form of the German stanza.
As to the character of the version - it is so free as to furnish no apology for harshness or obscurity in its language: and yet sufficiently close to exclude him from all claim to merit for the thought.
It is offered as "a specimen" of an almost boundless store of German hymns; and should it also prove an acceptable "manual for the closet," his highest hopes respecting it will be answered.
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