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See also Hymn book, hymnal
Keywords:
Song, church
Description of this motif:
Psalms are religious songs. A remarkable example of the motif in the fairy tales and stories of Hans Christian Andersen is At the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The title is a quote from psalm 139 of the bible's book of Psalms, a psalm by David.
Example :
Spring came; green leaves and flowers began to sprout, and the weeds, too, as one may call the nettles, even if the psalm speaks so nicely about them:
If every king, with power and might,
Marched forth in stately row,
They could not make the smallest leaf
Upon a nettle grow.
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