" in the "Transactions of Saxon
Society of the Sciences," vol. xxi (which relies too much on the
Massoretic or Canonical text); Erbt, "Jeremia u. seine Zeit," p.
298; Giesebrecht, "Jeremia's Metrik," iii. ff.; Karl Budde's
relevant pages in his "Geschichte der althebraeischen Litteratur,"
1906 reached me after I had expressed the views I have given above.
They agree in the main with these views.

49 Certainly the evidence of both the Hebrew text and the Versions are
against it, and the sense supports the text. More than once when
sharp questions or challenges are thrown out, we have very
appropriately two parallel lines of _two_ accents each instead of
the usual Qinah couplet of _three_ and _two_: e.g. ii. 14 and iii.
5. See below, pp. 46 ff. Compare the variety of metres, which
Schiller employs to such good effect in his "Song of the Bell"--a
variety in beautiful harmony with that of the different aspects of
life on which he touches; and see above, p. 36, on the irregularity
of metre in Heine's _Nordseebilder_.

50 Ch. xxix.

_ 51 Op. cit._, p. xii.

52 Chs. i, xi and xxxi.

53 "It is an understatement of the case to say that the folk-song has
been a source of inspiration. In the very greatest lyricists we
simply find the folk-song in a new shape: it has become more
polished and artistic, and it has been made the instrument of
personal lyrical utterance."--John Lees, M.A., D.Litt., "The German
Lyric" (London, etc., Dent & Sons, 1914).

54 And in particular sins against the fundamental principle of
parallelism, e.g. in iv. 3, where even with the help of part of an
obvious title to the Oracle he gets only three lines and supposes
the fourth to be lost; and though the sense-parallelism is generally
within a couplet he divides it between the last line of his first
couplet and the first of his second. Again, if we keep in mind what
is said above (p. 35) of the recurrence in Hebrew poems of longer,
heavier lines at intervals--especially at the end of a strophe or a
poem, we must feel a number of Duhm's emendations to be not only
unnecessary but harmful to the effectiveness of the verse.

55 Pointing {~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~}{~HEBREW LETTER TAV~} with Patah-Sheva for Tsere.

56 Pointing {~HEBREW LETTER LAMED~}{~HEBREW LETTER FI