{"slug": "softly-and-tenderly-jesus-is-calling", "title": "Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling", "first_line": "Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling", "author": "will-l-thompson", "author_date": "1880", "foot": "dactylic", "meter": {"pattern": [11, 7, 11, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Invitation", "Repentance", "Salvation", "Grace"], "scripture": ["Matthew 11:28", "Luke 15:20", "Revelation 22:17"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "sparkling-gems-1882", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Will L. Thompson (1847-1909), words and music together, first published by his own firm: Sparkling Gems Nos. 1 [and 2 combined], compiled by J. Calvin Bushey (East Liverpool, O.: Will L. Thompson & Co., 1882), page 54, headed \"For You And For Me. / Words and Music by WILL. L. THOMPSON.\" over four numbered stanzas and a \"CHORUS.\", with \"Copyright, 1880 by Will L. Thompson & Co., East Liverpool, O.\" at the foot \u2014 archive.org item sparklinggemsnos00bush, leaf n55 (printed page 54). US public domain (published pre-1929); the author died in 1909, so also PD in life+70 jurisdictions. The stanza text transcribed here is the one printed under the music of Tabernacle Hymns No. 2 (Chicago, 1921), hymn 191 (archive.org tabernaclehymnsn02chic leaf n196), which is the same four stanzas with the divine pronouns capitalised and the 1880 page's lower-case \"he\" raised to \"He\"; \"Tho'\" and \"sinn'd\" are the 1921 print's own elisions, and the 1880 page reads \"Oh! for the wonderful love he has promised\" where 1921 reads the same line with \"He\". Line 2 of stanza 1 ends with a COMMA on BOTH pages, and so does the refrain's \"Ye who are weary, come home,\"; this record first shipped semicolons in both places, and a claim that 1921 printed a semicolon and was 'followed throughout', which its own cited leaf contradicts. Corrected to the page. The pointing here is now the 1921 print's.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "softly_and_tenderly_jesus_is_calling", "total_instances": 1025}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Soft -- ly and ten -- der -- ly Je -- sus is call -- ing, Call -- ing for you and for me, See on the por -- tals He's wait -- ing and watch -- ing, Watch -- ing for you and for me.", "prose": ["Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,", "Calling for you and for me,", "See on the portals He's waiting and watching,", "Watching for you and for me."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Why should we tar -- ry when Je -- sus is plead -- ing, Plead -- ing for you and for me? Why should we lin -- ger and heed not His mer -- cies, Mer -- cies for you and for me?", "prose": ["Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,", "Pleading for you and for me?", "Why should we linger and heed not His mercies,", "Mercies for you and for me?"]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Time is now fleet -- ing, the mo -- ments are pass -- ing, Pass -- ing from you and from me; Shad -- ows are gath -- er -- ing, death -- beds are com -- ing, Com -- ing for you and for me.", "prose": ["Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing,", "Passing from you and from me;", "Shadows are gathering, death-beds are coming,", "Coming for you and for me."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Oh! for the won -- der -- ful love He has prom -- ised, Prom -- ised for you and for me; Tho' we have sinn'd, He has mer -- cy and par -- don, Par -- don for you and for me.", "prose": ["Oh! for the wonderful love He has promised,", "Promised for you and for me;", "Tho' we have sinn'd, He has mercy and pardon,", "Pardon for you and for me."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Come home, come home, Ye who are wea -- ry, come home, Earn -- est -- ly, ten -- der -- ly Je -- sus is call -- ing, Call -- ing, O sin -- ner, come home!", "prose": ["Come home, come home,", "Ye who are weary, come home,", "Earnestly, tenderly Jesus is calling,", "Calling, O sinner, come home!"]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}