{"slug": "o-perfect-love-all-human-thought-transcending", "title": "O Perfect Love", "first_line": "O perfect Love, all human thought transcending", "author": "dorothy-frances-gurney", "author_date": "1883", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [11, 10, 11, 10], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Marriage", "Love"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Dorothy Frances Gurney, \"O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,\" written 1883 and published that year; sung widely as a wedding hymn. First published 1883 (US public domain, pub. pre-1929); author d. 1932, so also public domain in life-plus-70 jurisdictions since 2003.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "O per -- fect Love, all hu -- man thought tran -- scend -- ing, Low -- ly we kneel in prayer be -- fore Thy throne, That theirs may be the love which knows no end -- ing, Whom Thou for -- ev -- er -- more dost join in one.", "prose": ["O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,", "Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy throne,", "That theirs may be the love which knows no ending,", "Whom Thou forevermore dost join in one."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "O per -- fect Life, be Thou their full as -- sur -- ance Of ten -- der char -- i -- ty and stead -- fast faith, Of pa -- tient hope, and qui -- et, brave en -- dur -- ance, With child -- like trust that fears nor pain nor death.", "prose": ["O perfect Life, be Thou their full assurance", "Of tender charity and steadfast faith,", "Of patient hope, and quiet, brave endurance,", "With childlike trust that fears nor pain nor death."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Grant them the joy which bright -- ens earth -- ly sor -- row; Grant them the peace which calms all earth -- ly strife, And to life's day the glo -- rious un -- known mor -- row That dawns up -- on e -- ter -- nal love and life.", "prose": ["Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;", "Grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,", "And to life's day the glorious unknown morrow", "That dawns upon eternal love and life."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}