{"slug": "a-charge-to-keep-i-have", "title": "A Charge to Keep I Have", "first_line": "A charge to keep I have", "author": "charles-wesley", "author_date": "1762", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [6, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Consecration", "Christian Life", "Discipleship", "Service"], "scripture": ["Leviticus 8:35", "1 Corinthians 4:2", "Ephesians 5:16"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "methodist-hymnal-1905", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Charles Wesley (1707-1788), on Leviticus 8:35 (\"keep the charge of the LORD\"), from Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (Bristol, 1762), vol. 1. Transcribed from The Methodist Hymnal (New York: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1905), #388, which prints these four stanzas attributed \"Charles Wesley\" over BOYLSTON S.M. by Lowell Mason \u2014 the same tune this corpus already holds, so the pairing here is the printed one and not an editorial choice. Public domain: author d. 1788, and the 1905 printing read for this record is itself pre-1931. Scan: archive.org/details/methodi00meth.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "A charge to keep I have, A God to glo -- ri -- fy, A nev -- er -- dy -- ing soul to save, And fit it for the sky.", "prose": ["A charge to keep I have,", "A God to glorify,", "A never-dying soul to save,", "And fit it for the sky."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "To serve the pres -- ent age, My call -- ing to ful -- fill, O may it all my pow'rs en -- gage To do my Mas -- ter's will!", "prose": ["To serve the present age,", "My calling to fulfill;", "O may it all my pow'rs engage,", "To do my Master's will!"]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Arm me with jeal -- ous care, As in Thy sight to live, And O, Thy ser -- vant, Lord, pre -- pare A strict ac -- count to give!", "prose": ["Arm me with jealous care,", "As in thy sight to live,", "And O, thy servant, Lord, prepare,", "A strict account to give!"]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Help me to watch and pray, And on Thy -- self re -- ly, As -- sured, if I my trust be -- tray, I shall for -- ev -- er die.", "prose": ["Help me to watch and pray,", "And on thyself rely,", "Assured, if I my trust betray,", "I shall forever die."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}