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Paul Gerhardt's Life and Times
PART ONE
CHAPTER I. GERHARDT'S LIFE AND TIMES.
Although Paul Gerhardt's poems have been so great a power in the world, nevertheless facts concerning his own life are few. A fire set by the Swedish soldiers in 1637 destroyed all records which might enlighten us, yet from indirect sources and from his poems, we are certain of some facts of his biography.