A BOOK OF

GERMAN

DACTYLIC POETRY. I

Herameter zu machen,

Die weder hinken noch krachen.

Das sind nicht Jedermanns Sachen

A. W. Schlege!

"Germany's great poets have clothed sublime thoughts

in hexameter verse."

A. BASKERVILLE,

The Poetry of Germany, p. xi.

WILHELM WAGNER, PH. D.

PROFESSOR AT THE JOHANNEUM, HAMBURG.

EDITED FOR THE SYNDICS OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Cambridge:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

London: CAMBRIDGE WAREHOUSE, 17, PATERNOSTER ROW.
Cambridge: DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO.

1878

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