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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 534 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PSALM (from the Gr. word * hXAew, to
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play the harp)
  , the name used to designate the religious poems of the Hebrews, which are contained in the Psalter (see PSALMS,
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BOOK OF) .
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Modern collections of religious
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poetry sometimes bear the title of Psalms and
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Hymns, but these are always more or less directly connected with the actual Psalms of David . Longfellow wrote " A Psalm of
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Life (1839), which was an intimate confession of the religious aspirations of the author . The Psaumes of Clement Marot (1538) were curious adaptations of
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Hebrew ideas to French forms of the
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epigram and the madrigal . But it is doubtful whether the psalm, as distinguished from the Hebrew Psalter, can be said to have any
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independent existence . It is loosely used to describe any exalted strain of devotional melody .

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