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Rh ame difficult double rhyme, in tanzas of the ame triplicate contruction, and, with fewet errors, to be as a tranlation the mot literal and jut that has been made. Yet this ucces in letters was achieved by a oldier, during the gloomiet period of a great and ditracting war. The author is Major-General John A. Dix, U. S. V., and the tranlation was made at Fortres Monroe, in the econd year of the Rebellion.

The intene power of the Great Hymn is alo exemplified in the different renderings which have been made by the ame author. Dr. Abraham Coles, an American phyician, has performed indeed the remarkable tak of making thirteen different verions; ix of which are in the trochaic meaure and double rhyme of the hymn, and all are ufficiently ditinct and original to form the creditable work of thirteen different men. This verion is the firt of Dr. Coles.