{"slug": "the-ninety-and-nine", "title": "The Ninety and Nine", "first_line": "There were ninety and nine that safely lay", "author": "elizabeth-c-clephane", "author_date": "1868", "foot": "anapestic", "meter": {"pattern": [10, 7, 9, 7, 9, 9, 9], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": true}, "topics": ["Shepherd", "Redemption", "Invitation (God's to Us)", "Atonement", "Joy"], "scripture": ["Luke 15:4-7", "Matthew 18:12-14", "Isaiah 53:6"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "gospel-hymns-sacred-songs-1875", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane (1830-1869), written 1868 and printed anonymously in The Christian Age soon after her death; Ira D. Sankey found it in a Scottish newspaper in 1874 and set it extempore. Transcribed from the first printing of the hymn WITH this tune: Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs, as used by them in gospel meetings (P. P. Bliss & Ira D. Sankey; New York: Biglow & Main / Cincinnati: John Church & Co., 1875), No. 6, printed page 8 \u2014 archive.org gospelhymnssacre00blis_0, leaf n11 \u2014 which prints stanza 1 under the music and stanzas 2-5 as text below it, over the epigraph \"Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.\" \u2014 Luke 15: 6, credited \"Elizabeth C. Clephane. 1868.\" US public domain: published 1875, and the author died in 1869, so also PD in life+70 jurisdictions. Wording is that page's \u2014 including its hyphenated \"to-night\" and the em dash ending \"Out in the desert He heard its cry\u2014\", both of which this record first shipped modernized and both of which are now restored \u2014 including \"'Tis of mine\", \"But all thro' the mountains\" and \"There rose a cry to the gate of heaven\"; the same words were re-read on Gospel Hymns ... Consolidated Nos. 1-4 (1883), No. 6, page 8 (gospelhymnsconso00blis_202606, leaf n9). EDITORIAL: the 1875 page sets each stanza out in SIX lines, because its seventh line is simply the sixth sung again \u2014 the music repeats it, and the page relies on the reader to see that from stanza 1's underlay. The seventh line is written out here, as the four-verse interlinear printing in Christ in Song (rev. and enl., 1908), No. 61, page 61 (songfora00beld, leaf n76) writes it out, so that every stanza has the seven lines the tune actually sings. Divine pronouns are left exactly as the 1875 page sets them \u2014 capitalised in stanzas 1, 3 and 4 (\"His sheep\", \"Thy hands\"), lower case in stanza 2 (\"away from me\", \"find my sheep\").", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "there_were_ninety_and_nine_that_safely", "total_instances": 223}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "There were nine -- ty and nine that safe -- ly lay In the shel -- ter of the fold, But one was out on the hills a -- way, Far off from the gates of gold, A -- way on the moun -- tains wild and bare, A -- way from the ten -- der Shep -- herd's care, A -- way from the ten -- der Shep -- herd's care.", "prose": ["There were ninety and nine that safely lay", "In the shelter of the fold,", "But one was out on the hills away,", "Far off from the gates of gold,", "Away on the mountains wild and bare,", "Away from the tender Shepherd's care,", "Away from the tender Shepherd's care."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "\"Lord, Thou hast here Thy nine -- ty and nine; Are they not e -- nough for Thee?\" But the Shep -- herd made an -- swer: \"'Tis of mine Has wan -- dered a -- way from me; And al -- though the road be rough and steep, I go to the des -- ert to find my sheep, I go to the des -- ert to find my sheep.\"", "prose": ["\"Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine;", "Are they not enough for Thee?\"", "But the Shepherd made answer: \"'Tis of mine", "Has wandered away from me;", "And although the road be rough and steep,", "I go to the desert to find my sheep,", "I go to the desert to find my sheep.\""]}, "3": {"syllabified": "But none of the ran -- somed ev -- er knew How deep were the wa -- ters crossed; Nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed through Ere He found His sheep that was lost. Out in the des -- ert He heard its cry\u2014 Sick and help -- less, and read -- y to die, Sick and help -- less, and read -- y to die.", "prose": ["But none of the ransomed ever knew", "How deep were the waters crossed;", "Nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed through", "Ere He found His sheep that was lost.", "Out in the desert He heard its cry\u2014", "Sick and helpless, and ready to die,", "Sick and helpless, and ready to die."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "\"Lord, whence are those blood -- drops all the way That mark out the moun -- tain's track?\" \"They were shed for one who had gone a -- stray Ere the Shep -- herd could bring him back.\" \"Lord, whence are Thy hands so rent and torn?\" \"They are pierced to -- night by man -- y a thorn, They are pierced to -- night by man -- y a thorn.\"", "prose": ["\"Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the way", "That mark out the mountain''s track?\"", "\"They were shed for one who had gone astray", "Ere the Shepherd could bring him back.\"", "\"Lord, whence are Thy hands so rent and torn?\"", "\"They are pierced to-night by many a thorn,", "They are pierced to-night by many a thorn.\""]}, "5": {"syllabified": "But all thro' the moun -- tains, thun -- der -- riv -- en, And up from the rock -- y steep, There rose a cry to the gate of heav -- en, \"Re -- joice! I have found my sheep!\" And the an -- gels ech -- oed a -- round the throne, \"Re -- joice, for the Lord brings back His own! Re -- joice, for the Lord brings back His own!\"", "prose": ["But all thro' the mountains, thunder-riven,", "And up from the rocky steep,", "There rose a cry to the gate of heaven,", "\"Rejoice! I have found my sheep!\"", "And the angels echoed around the throne,", "\"Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own!", "Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own!\""]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}