{"slug": "i-am-thine-o-lord", "title": "I Am Thine, O Lord", "first_line": "I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard Thy voice", "author": "fanny-crosby", "author_date": "1875", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [10, 7, 10, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Consecration", "Nearness to God", "Prayer", "Cross"], "scripture": ["Hebrews 10:22"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "brightest-and-best-1875", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915), written 1875 during a visit to William H. Doane's home in Cincinnati. Transcribed word by word from the dated first-printing page images of Brightest and Best (New York: Biglow & Main, 1875), hymn 22, printed pages 22-23 \u2014 archive.org brighte00lowr, leaves 0024 and 0025 \u2014 headed \"DRAW ME NEARER.\" over the scripture motto \"Let us draw near with a true heart.\"\u2014Heb. 10: 22, credited \"FANNY J. CROSBY.\" on the left and \"W. H. DOANE.\" on the right, with \"COPYRIGHT 1875, BY BIGLOW & MAIN.\" at the foot of both pages. Stanzas 1-3 are set interlinearly under the staves of page 22; stanza 4 is printed as a poetry block on page 23 beside the hymn's concluding system, closing \"Draw me nearer, &c.\" Collated against the same setting reprinted in Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 Complete (New York: Biglow & Main; Cincinnati: John Church, 1894), No. 572, printed page 581 \u2014 archive.org gospelhymnsnos1t0000unse_s2j5, leaf 0587 \u2014 which carries the same 1875 Biglow & Main copyright line. US public domain: first published 1875, and the author died in 1915, so it is also PD in life+70 jurisdictions. Wording follows the 1875 page throughout. TWO NORMALISATIONS ARE DECLARED: (1) the 1875 underlay prints \"I have heard thy voice\" with a lower-case \"thy\" while printing \"Thy love\", \"Thy service\" and every other divine pronoun capitalised; the 1894 reprint capitalises \"Thy voice\", and that reading is followed as an obvious type-setting slip. (2) The 1875 page closes stanza 3 \"friend with friend !\" with a spaced exclamation mark; the space is dropped. The refrain's last line follows the 1875 page exactly \u2014 \"To Thy precious bleeding side.\" with no comma after \"precious\" (the 1894 reprint adds one). Stanza 4 line 2 ends \"sea,\" as both printings punctuate it.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "i_am_thine_o_lord_i_have_heard_thy"}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard Thy voice, And it told Thy love to me; But I long to rise in the arms of faith, And be clos -- er drawn to Thee.", "prose": ["I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard Thy voice,", "And it told Thy love to me;", "But I long to rise in the arms of faith,", "And be closer drawn to Thee."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Con -- se -- crate me now to Thy serv -- ice, Lord, By the pow'r of grace di -- vine; Let my soul look up with a stead -- fast hope, And my will be lost in Thine.", "prose": ["Consecrate me now to Thy service, Lord,", "By the pow'r of grace divine;", "Let my soul look up with a steadfast hope,", "And my will be lost in Thine."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "O the pure de -- light of a sin -- gle hour That be -- fore Thy throne I spend, When I kneel in pray'r, and with Thee, my God, I com -- mune as friend with friend!", "prose": ["O the pure delight of a single hour", "That before Thy throne I spend,", "When I kneel in pray'r, and with Thee, my God,", "I commune as friend with friend!"]}, "4": {"syllabified": "There are depths of love that I can -- not know Till I cross the nar -- row sea, There are heights of joy that I may not reach Till I rest in peace with Thee.", "prose": ["There are depths of love that I cannot know", "Till I cross the narrow sea,", "There are heights of joy that I may not reach", "Till I rest in peace with Thee."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Draw me near -- er, near -- er, bless -- ed Lord, To the cross where Thou hast died; Draw me near -- er, near -- er, near -- er, bless -- ed Lord, To Thy pre -- cious bleed -- ing side.", "prose": ["Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,", "To the cross where Thou hast died;", "Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,", "To Thy precious bleeding side."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}