" THE MIGHTY MONOSYLLABLE."
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—The writer of the article on "The Mighty Monosyllable " in your issue of August 31st would have added force to his contention if his last quotation had been accurate, and if he had quoted the whole verse, which runs as follows :- "But yet the Lord that is on high Is more of might by far Than noise of many waters is Or great sea billows are."
"More of might by far" is obviously stronger and better than " mightier by far," and is composed entirely of monosyllables. I wish it were not the case that metrical psalms such as that from which these lines are taken are being abandoned in the services of the Kirk for "hymns," the great majority of which are unfit for any self-respecting human being to sing.—I am,
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