{"slug": "jesus-keep-me-near-the-cross", "title": "Near the Cross", "first_line": "Jesus, keep me near the cross", "author": "fanny-crosby", "author_date": "1869", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [7, 6, 7, 6], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Cross", "Atonement", "Consecration", "Heaven"], "scripture": ["1 Corinthians 1:18", "Galatians 6:14", "Colossians 1:20"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "gospel-hymns-sacred-songs-1875", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915). Transcribed word by word from the dated page of Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs (New York: Biglow & Main, 1875), No. 45, printed page 46 \u2014 archive.org gospelhymnssacre00blis_0, leaf n49 \u2014 which is headed \"Near the Cross.\" over the motto \"Peace through the blood of His cross.\"\u2014Coll. 1: 29, credits \"FANNY J. CROSBY.\" at the left and \"W. H. DOANE, by per.\" at the right, sets stanzas 1 and 2 interlinearly under the staves, and prints stanzas 3 and 4 in full below the music, each closed \"Cho.\" Collated against the same hymn re-engraved in Gospel Hymns Consolidated, Nos. 1 to 4 (New York: Biglow & Main; Cincinnati: John Church, 1883), No. 45, printed page 46 \u2014 archive.org hymnsconso00blis, leaf n49. US public domain: both printings read are pre-1931, the earlier being 1875, and the author died in 1915. The text is conventionally dated 1869; no printing earlier than 1875 was opened for this record, so 1869 is given as the conventional date and not as a page-verified one. THE TWO PRINTINGS DIFFER IN THREE PLACES, all of them in stanza 2 line 4 and in hyphenation: the 1875 page reads \"Shed its beams a-round me.\" and the 1883 page \"Sheds its beams a-round me.\"; the 1875 page sets \"fountain\" unbroken where the 1883 page sets \"fount-ain\"; and the 1883 page prints \"Cho.\" where the 1875 page prints \"Cho.\" after stanza 3 but plain \"Cho\" after stanza 4. \"Sheds\" is adopted here, since it is the reading of the later of the two dated printings and the one the hymn has carried since. DEPARTURES FROM THE PAGE, in full: (1) the pages set French spacing \u2014 \"Near the Cross ! O Lamb of God,\" and \"Bring its scenes before me ;\" \u2014 and that space before the exclamation mark and the semicolon is closed up here to modern English spacing; (2) the \"\u2014Cho.\" trailing stanzas 3 and 4 is a printer's direction to repeat the chorus, not part of the words, and is not carried; (3) the pages capitalise \"cross\" in stanzas 1 and 2 but \"Cross\" in stanzas 3 and 4, and that inconsistency is reproduced exactly as printed, not normalised; (4) both pages set \"Calvary's\" unbroken over the two notes it is sung on, so the syllabified line below splits it \"Cal -- vary's\" to give the line its six slots \u2014 the printed spelling is unchanged, only the hyphenation is editorial. Nothing else departs.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Je -- sus, keep me near the cross, There a pre -- cious foun -- tain Free to all\u2014 a heal -- ing stream, Flows from Cal -- vary's moun -- tain.", "prose": ["Jesus, keep me near the cross,", "There a precious fountain", "Free to all\u2014 a healing stream,", "Flows from Calvary's mountain."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Near the cross, a trem -- bling soul, Love and mer -- cy found me; There the bright and morn -- ing star Sheds its beams a -- round me.", "prose": ["Near the cross, a trembling soul,", "Love and mercy found me;", "There the bright and morning star", "Sheds its beams around me."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Near the Cross! O Lamb of God, Bring its scenes be -- fore me; Help me walk from day to day, With its shad -- ows o'er me.", "prose": ["Near the Cross! O Lamb of God,", "Bring its scenes before me;", "Help me walk from day to day,", "With its shadows o'er me."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Near the Cross I'll watch and wait, Hop -- ing, trust -- ing ev -- er, Till I reach the gold -- en strand, Just be -- yond the riv -- er.", "prose": ["Near the Cross I'll watch and wait,", "Hoping, trusting ever,", "Till I reach the golden strand,", "Just beyond the river."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "In the Cross, in the Cross, Be my glo -- ry ev -- er; Till my rap -- tured soul shall find Rest be -- yond the riv -- er.", "prose": ["In the Cross, in the Cross,", "Be my glory ever;", "Till my raptured soul shall find", "Rest beyond the river."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}