{"slug": "my-end-lord-make-me-know", "title": "A Mourner's Entreaties", "first_line": "My end, Lord, make me know", "author_source": "The Psalter, 1912", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [6, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "psalm": 39, "topics": ["Psalms"], "scripture": ["Psalm 39"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "psalter-1912", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "encoding_origin": "hymnary.org (selection 107) via the Wayback Machine; cross-verified against two independently scanned printings (archive.org OCR)", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "The Psalter, United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912 \u2014 Psalm 39, selection 107. Imported by tools/psalter1912_import.py: word-bag attested by both scans; every line machine-scanned to the metre.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "My end, Lord, make me know, My days, how soon they fail; And to my thought -- ful spir -- it show How weak I am and frail.", "prose": ["My end, Lord, make me know,", "My days, how soon they fail;", "And to my thoughtful spirit show", "How weak I am and frail."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "To Thy e -- ter -- nal thought My days are but a span; To Thee my years ap -- pear as nought, A breath at best is man.", "prose": ["To Thy eternal thought", "My days are but a span;", "To Thee my years appear as nought,", "A breath at best is man."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "O Lord, re -- gard my fears, And an -- swer my re -- quest; turn not in si -- lence from my tears, But give the mour -- ner rest.", "prose": ["O Lord, regard my fears,", "And answer my request;", "turn not in silence from my tears,", "But give the mourner rest."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "I am a stran -- ger here, De -- pen -- dent on Thy grace, A pil -- grim, as my fa -- thers were, With no a -- bid -- ing place.", "prose": ["I am a stranger here,", "Dependent on Thy grace,", "A pilgrim, as my fathers were,", "With no abiding place."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}