{"slug": "i-stand-amazed-in-the-presence", "title": "I Stand Amazed in the Presence", "first_line": "I stand amazed in the presence", "author": "charles-hutchinson-gabriel", "author_date": "1905", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 7, 8, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Atonement", "Love", "Grace", "Redemption", "Gethsemane"], "scripture": ["Luke 22:44", "Romans 5:8", "1 John 3:1"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "praises-1905", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Words and music by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (1856-1932). Transcribed syllable by syllable from the dated page image of its FIRST publication: Praises, ed. E. O. Excell (Chicago: E. O. Excell, 1905), No. 3, printed page 3 \u2014 archive.org item praises00excegoog, leaf n10 \u2014 which is headed \"My Savior's Love.\", credits \"C. H. G.\" on the left and \"Chas. H. Gabriel.\" on the right, engraves \"COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY CHAS. H. GABRIEL.\" between them, prints all FOUR stanzas interlinearly under the upper staff of the two verse systems, and prints the chorus with TWO lyric rows. Collated against a second, independent scan of the same 1905 edition, archive.org praises00exce, leaf n8; the volume's own copyright page reads \"Copyright, 1905, by E. O. Excell\" and its preface is dated \"Chicago, November 1, 1905\". US public domain: GABRIEL DIED IN 1932, SO HIS DEATH DATE CLEARS NOTHING ON ITS OWN \u2014 the basis is that this printing was published in 1905, before 1931, and both witnesses read here are themselves that pre-1931 printing. PUNCTUATION FOLLOWS THE PAGE, including the dash and the internal quotation in stanza 2 (\"He prayed\u2014 \u201cNot my will but Thine;\u201d\" \u2014 the plate sets no comma after \"will\"), the elisions \"thro'\" and \"'Twill\" in stanza 4, the hyphen in \"sweat-drops\", and the colon-plus-dash at \"be:\u2014\" in the chorus. THE PLATE'S SECOND CHORUS LYRIC ROW IS NOT CARRIED HERE: under the chorus it prints, below the row set here, an alternative \"O how mar-vel-ous! O how won-der-ful!\" / \"O how mar-vel-ous, O how won-der-ful,\" that covers only the first half of each chorus line and needs the lower voices' restruck quarters sung as separate soprano syllables. Only the first, complete row is set.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "i_stand_amazed_in_the_presence", "total_instances": 278}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "I stand a -- mazed in the pres -- ence Of Je -- sus, the Naz -- a -- rene, And won -- der how He could love me, A sin -- ner, con -- demned, un -- clean.", "prose": ["I stand amazed in the presence", "Of Jesus, the Nazarene,", "And wonder how He could love me,", "A sinner, condemned, unclean."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "For me it was in the gar -- den He prayed\u2014 \u201cNot my will but Thine;\u201d He had no tears for His own griefs, But sweat -- drops of blood for mine.", "prose": ["For me it was in the garden", "He prayed\u2014 \u201cNot my will but Thine;\u201d", "He had no tears for His own griefs,", "But sweat-drops of blood for mine."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "In pit -- y an -- gels be -- held Him, And came from the world of light To com -- fort Him in the sor -- rows He bore for my soul that night.", "prose": ["In pity angels beheld Him,", "And came from the world of light", "To comfort Him in the sorrows", "He bore for my soul that night."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "When with the ran -- somed in glo -- ry, His face I at last shall see, 'Twill be my joy thro' the ag -- es To sing of His love for me.", "prose": ["When with the ransomed in glory,", "His face I at last shall see,", "'Twill be my joy thro' the ages", "To sing of His love for me."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "How mar -- vel -- ous! how won -- der -- ful! And my song shall ev -- er be:\u2014 How mar -- vel -- ous, how won -- der -- ful, Is my Sav -- ior's love for me!", "prose": ["How marvelous! how wonderful!", "And my song shall ever be:\u2014", "How marvelous, how wonderful,", "Is my Savior's love for me!"]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}