{"slug": "come-ye-sinners-poor-and-needy", "title": "Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy", "first_line": "Come, ye sinners, poor and needy", "author": "joseph-hart", "author_date": "1759", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 7, 8, 7, 4, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Invitation (God's to Us)", "Repentance", "Grace", "Sinners"], "scripture": ["Matthew 11:28", "Isaiah 55:1", "Luke 5:32"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "methodist-hymnal-1905", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Joseph Hart, 1759 (Hymns Composed on Various Subjects, London, 1759). Transcribed word for word and mark for mark from the dated page image of The Methodist Hymnal (New York: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1905), hymn 259, printed page 184 \u2014 archive.org methodi00meth leaf n195 \u2014 under the running head \"The Gospel\", and collated against archive.org methodisthymnal01churgoog leaf n202. The page prints stanza 1 under the staves of the ETON setting and stanzas 2, 3 and 4 in two columns beneath, credited \"JOSEPH HART\" at the foot. FOUR STANZAS AND NO REFRAIN: this printing is the plain 8.7.8.7.4.7 form, and the \"I will arise and go to Jesus\" chorus that some other printings attach is absent from it and is not supplied here. US public domain: first published 1759 and the witness read is itself 1905, well before 1931. DEPARTURES FROM THE PAGE, in full: (1) in stanza 3 the page prints \"glimmering\", which is three syllables against the tune's seven-syllable sixth line, so the SUNG line elides it to \"glim -- m'ring\" \u2014 the `prose` for that stanza keeps the page's spelling; (2) the page's printed hyphen in stanza 4's \"heavy-laden\" becomes an ordinary syllable join in the singable line, which is how this corpus writes every compound. Every other letter, every apostrophe, the semicolons at the ends of stanza lines 2 and 4, the colon in stanza 1 line 4 and stanza 3 line 4, and the em-dash after stanza 4's \"Not the righteous,\" are the page's.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Come, ye sin -- ners, poor and need -- y, Weak and wound -- ed, sick and sore; Je -- sus read -- y stands to save you, Full of pit -- y, love, and power: He is a -- ble, He is will -- ing: doubt no more.", "prose": ["Come, ye sinners, poor and needy,", "Weak and wounded, sick and sore;", "Jesus ready stands to save you,", "Full of pity, love, and power:", "He is able,", "He is willing: doubt no more."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Now, ye need -- y, come and wel -- come; God's free boun -- ty glo -- ri -- fy; True be -- lief and true re -- pent -- ance, Ev -- ery grace that brings you nigh, With -- out mon -- ey, Come to Je -- sus Christ and buy.", "prose": ["Now, ye needy, come and welcome;", "God's free bounty glorify;", "True belief and true repentance,", "Every grace that brings you nigh,", "Without money,", "Come to Jesus Christ and buy."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Let not con -- science make you lin -- ger, Nor of fit -- ness fond -- ly dream; All the fit -- ness he re -- quir -- eth Is to feel your need of him: This he gives you; 'Tis the Spir -- it's glim -- m'ring beam.", "prose": ["Let not conscience make you linger,", "Nor of fitness fondly dream;", "All the fitness he requireth", "Is to feel your need of him:", "This he gives you;", "'Tis the Spirit's glimmering beam."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Come, ye wea -- ry, heav -- y -- lad -- en, Bruised and man -- gled by the fall; If you tar -- ry till you're bet -- ter, You will nev -- er come at all; Not the right -- eous,\u2014 Sin -- ners Je -- sus came to call.", "prose": ["Come, ye weary, heavy-laden,", "Bruised and mangled by the fall;", "If you tarry till you're better,", "You will never come at all;", "Not the righteous,\u2014", "Sinners Jesus came to call."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}