{"slug": "it-is-well-with-my-soul", "title": "It Is Well with My Soul", "first_line": "When peace, like a river, attendeth my way", "author": "horatio-g-spafford", "author_date": "1873", "foot": "anapestic", "meter": {"pattern": [11, 8, 11, 9], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Comfort", "Peace", "Assurance", "Trust"], "scripture": ["Psalm 55:18"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "oh-source-1931", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), written in 1873 after his four daughters died in the wreck of the SS Ville du Havre; first published with Bliss's tune in Gospel Hymns No. 2, ed. P. P. Bliss & Ira D. Sankey (New York: Biglow & Main; Cincinnati: John Church, 1876), no. 76, printed pages 77-78, headed \"H. G. SPAFFORD.\" with the motto \"He hath delivered my soul in peace.\"\u2014Ps. 55:18 \u2014 archive.org item hymnsno02blis, leaf n82: stanzas 1-2 interlinear, 3-4 as poetry below the music. US public domain (published pre-1929; author died 1888, so PD in life+70 jurisdictions too). Hymnary text authority when_peace_like_a_river_attendeth_my_way (588 instances, \"Public Domain\"). THE WORDING HERE IS THE 1921 PAGE'S \u2014 The Evangelical Hymnal, Hymn 208, printed page 152 (archive.org evangelicalhymna00evan, leaf n184), the page the Open Hymnal X:198 w: lines transcribe, read at full resolution with all four stanzas interlinear \u2014 with the 1876 first printing collated line by line. The dated pages settle every place the OH w: text slips or modernises, and the popular modern readings are NOT followed where both dated pages agree otherwise: stanza 1 reads \"Thou hast taught me to say\" (both pages; OH types \"has\"); stanza 2 \"That Christ hath regarded\" (both pages; OH types \"has\"); stanza 3 \"Is nailed to His cross\" (both pages; OH alters to \"the cross\"); stanza 4 \"when the faith shall be sight\" (BOTH dated pages \u2014 the familiar \"my faith\" is a later alteration the OH text block follows, not shipped here). Readings where the two dated pages differ follow the 1921 primary: \"My sin\u2014O the bliss\" (1876: \"oh,\"), \"and I bear it no more,\" with the comma, \"back as a scroll,\" (comma, not semicolon), and the punctuation of \"When sorrows, like sea-billows, roll;\" \u2014 both pages hyphenate the compound \"sea-billows\" and point a comma before \"roll\", the 1921 adding one after \"sorrows\". DECLARED DEPARTURES, both typographic: the 1921's space-saving \"tho' tri-als\" is expanded to \"though trials\" as the 1876 page and the OH w: line both print; its typewriter double apostrophes around ''E-ven so''\u2014 are set as curly quotes. The refrain is the plates' \"It is well with my soul, It is well, it is well with my soul.\" (no comma after the first held \"well\" \u2014 the OH w: adds one); the echo rows the pages print above the treble (\"It is well.........\" / \"with my soul,.......\") live on the harmonization's bass_echo, not here. The Open Hymnal carries two further stanzas (\"For me, be it Christ...\", \"But, Lord, 'tis for Thee...\") that neither dated page prints; the four-stanza form of the dated printings is what is shipped.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "when_peace_like_a_river_attendeth_my_way", "total_instances": 588}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "When peace, like a riv -- er, at -- tend -- eth my way, When sor -- rows, like sea -- bil -- lows, roll; What -- ev -- er my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul.", "prose": ["When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,", "When sorrows, like sea-billows, roll;", "Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,", "It is well, it is well with my soul."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Though Sa -- tan should buf -- fet, though tri -- als should come, Let this blest as -- sur -- ance con -- trol, That Christ hath re -- gard -- ed my help -- less es -- tate, And hath shed His own blood for my soul.", "prose": ["Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,", "Let this blest assurance control,", "That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,", "And hath shed His own blood for my soul."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "My sin\u2014 O the bliss of this glo -- ri -- ous thought! My sin\u2014 not in part but the whole, Is nailed to His cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!", "prose": ["My sin\u2014O the bliss of this glorious thought!", "My sin\u2014not in part but the whole,", "Is nailed to His cross, and I bear it no more,", "Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!"]}, "4": {"syllabified": "And, Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight, The clouds be rolled back as a scroll, The trump shall re -- sound, and the Lord shall de -- scend, \u201cE -- ven so\u201d\u2014 it is well with my soul.", "prose": ["And, Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight,", "The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,", "The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,", "\u201cEven so\u201d\u2014it is well with my soul."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "It is well with my soul, It is well, it is well with my soul.", "prose": ["It is well with my soul,", "It is well, it is well with my soul."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}