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Excerpt from The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, Vol. 12: Parts LXVII. To LXXII., July-December, 1871
Meanwhile, the rhyming poets, leaving the older systems, extended their double rhymes into Iambic metres, giving to their hymns thereby, as Dr. Neale remarks, a certain impression of irreverence which it is hard to get over. A well-known example may be seen in the hymn fi'om which No. 93 in Hymns Ancient and Modern is translated.
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