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“I find rather that what most distinguishes a hymn from other kinds of poetry, including song lyrics, is the expectation that the speaker and the reader will collapse into each other -- that is, readers will read (including singing) rightly when they can voice the words as if they were their own.”

Christopher N. Phillips, The Hymnal: A Reading History
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