I never studied my mother tongue, a language which I
love - because there is no loyalty to the original terms
with which the giants of old followed the Lord praising
Him – NO, the old Psalm book was rewritten again by
Those who detest all things sweet and lyrical, forcing
the congregation to sing without fire and elation in the
melody, we learned the Psalms by heart and I enjoyed
the German quality in the words and lines – BUT those
In power chose ugliness in realism to be the antidote to
the overpowering magnitude of the old translations by
Totius and others – the killers had taken my joy away,
I retaliated by revoking membership of this peerless
Joyless group - and kept the old fire alive in my heart
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