Note 220 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY (continued 2)
Reading edition
The gnomic verses preserved in Anglo-Saxon, especially the shorter sentences in the Exeter Ms. (see Grein-Wülker, Biblioth., I. 345 f.) are a curious instance of the survival of quasi-Botocudan maxims on a higher plane of culture. As to the æsthetic value of the South American utterance, how far is it inferior to the sonorous commonplaces of our own verse,—say The Psalm of Life?