{"slug": "face-to-face-with-christ-my-saviour", "title": "Face to Face", "first_line": "Face to face with Christ, my Saviour", "author": "carrie-e-breck", "author_date": "1899", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 7, 8, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Heaven", "Hope", "Second Coming", "Eternal Life"], "scripture": ["1 Corinthians 13:12", "1 John 3:2", "Revelation 22:4"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "tabernacle-hymns-no-2-1921", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_evidence": "Words by Carrie E. Breck, whom the page credits in the printed form \"Mrs Frank A. Breck.\" Transcribed syllable by syllable from the dated page image of Tabernacle Hymns, No. 2 (Chicago: Tabernacle Publishing Co., 1921), hymn 62, headed \"Face to Face.\" over \"Mrs Frank A. Breck.\" (left) and \"Grant Colfax Tullar.\" (right) \u2014 archive.org tabernaclehymnsn00chic leaf 0070 \u2014 and collated word by word against a second scan of the same plate, archive.org tabernaclehymnsn02chic leaf 0068. The page prints ALL FOUR stanzas in full, numbered 1-4, in two blocks of four rows: the first two lines of each stanza under system 1, the second two under system 2, with the chorus printed ONCE as a single lyric row under each of systems 3 and 4. US public domain: the page foots the hymn \"Copyright, 1899 by Tullar-Meredith Co   Used by per\" (the line runs off the trim on both scans and is quoted only as far as it prints), so the underlying copyright is 1899 and the printing read is itself 1921 \u2014 both well before 1931. THE AUTHOR DATE ABOVE IS THE PAGE'S COPYRIGHT YEAR, 1899, which is the only date the page carries; no earlier first-publication date was verified for this record and nothing here depends on one. PUNCTUATION AND SPELLING FOLLOW THE PAGE: \"Sav - iour\" (British spelling); em-dashes after \"face\" in stanza 1 line 2 and stanza 4 line 2; the exclamation marks in stanza 4 line 1 (\"Face to face! oh, bliss-ful mo - ment!\"); the semicolons ending stanza 3 line 2 and stanza 4 line 2; and the full stops ending stanzas 1, 2 and 4. TWO READINGS WERE RECONCILED AGAINST THE SECOND SCAN: leaf 0070 sets \"crooked\" with the second o so filled with ink that it reads \"crocked\", and leaf 0068 prints it plainly as \"crooked\" \u2014 which the syllable count independently requires, since that line needs eight syllables and only the two-syllable \"crook-ed\" supplies them. The page leaves \"darkling\", \"rapture\", \"banished\", \"crooked\" and \"straightened\" unhyphenated in the lyric rows even though each is sung over two notes; they are hyphenated here to the tune, and the slot count of every stanza is thirty, matching the thirty verse noteheads exactly. The chorus's first printed lyric line ends \"sky; . . .\" \u2014 the ellipsis marks the note held under the fermata and is a typographic device, not a syllable; it is not carried into the refrain text.", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Face to face with Christ, my Sav -- iour, Face to face\u2014 what will it be? When with rap -- ture I be -- hold Him, Je -- sus Christ who died for me.", "prose": ["Face to face with Christ, my Saviour,", "Face to face\u2014what will it be?", "When with rapture I behold Him,", "Jesus Christ who died for me."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "On -- ly faint -- ly now, I see Him, With the dark -- ling veil be -- tween, But a bless -- ed day is com -- ing, When His glo -- ry shall be seen.", "prose": ["Only faintly now, I see Him,", "With the darkling veil between,", "But a blessed day is coming,", "When His glory shall be seen."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "What re -- joic -- ing in His pres -- ence, When are ban -- ished grief and pain; When the crook -- ed ways are straight -- ened, And the dark things shall be plain.", "prose": ["What rejoicing in His presence,", "When are banished grief and pain;", "When the crooked ways are straightened,", "And the dark things shall be plain."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Face to face! oh, bliss -- ful mo -- ment! Face to face\u2014 to see and know; Face to face with my Re -- deem -- er, Je -- sus Christ who loves me so.", "prose": ["Face to face! oh, blissful moment!", "Face to face\u2014to see and know;", "Face to face with my Redeemer,", "Jesus Christ who loves me so."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Face to face shall I be -- hold Him, Far be -- yond the star -- ry sky; Face to face in all His glo -- ry, I shall see Him by and by!", "prose": ["Face to face shall I behold Him,", "Far beyond the starry sky;", "Face to face in all His glory,", "I shall see Him by and by!"]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}