{"slug": "there-is-sunshine-in-my-soul-today", "title": "There Is Sunshine in My Soul Today", "first_line": "There's sunshine in my soul today", "author": "eliza-e-hewitt", "author_date": "1887", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Joy", "Assurance", "Testimony", "Praise"], "scripture": ["Psalm 97:11", "Malachi 4:2", "John 8:12", "1 Peter 1:8"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "glad-hallelujahs-1887", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (1851\u20131920), written 1887 for John R. Sweney, who composed the tune and published both that year. Transcribed syllable by syllable from the dated first printing: Glad Hallelujahs, ed. Sweney & Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia, 1887), No. 84, \"SUNSHINE IN THE SOUL.\", credited \"E. E. Hewitt.\" and footed \"Copyright, 1887, by JNO. R. SWENEY.\" \u2014 archive.org item gladhall00swen, leaf 0088 = printed page 84, all four stanzas interlinear plus a written-out antiphonal chorus with a second lyric row for the tenor/bass answer. Collated against an independent pre-1931 printing: Christian Endeavor Hymns, ed. Ira D. Sankey, No. 173 (archive.org christianendeavo00sank, leaf 0177), \"Copyright, 1887, by Jno. R. Sweney. Used by per.\" US public domain: published 1887; Hewitt died 1920, so PD in life+70 jurisdictions as well. READINGS FOLLOW THE 1887 PLATE where the two witnesses differ: the refrain's last line is \"There is sun-shine in the soul.\" (Christian Endeavor Hymns prints \"in my soul.\"); \"his smil-ing face\" is lower-case on the 1887 plate (CEH capitalises \"His\"); stanza 3 prints \"flowers\" \u2014 no apostrophe, the elision left implicit \u2014 sung to ONE note (six sung syllables against the six notes of the line; CEH prints the explicit \"flow'rs\", read at high zoom on both plates), and the corpus keeps the 1887 spelling as a single sung token; stanza 4 prints quotation marks around \"laid up\" (For joys \"laid up\" a-bove., after Colossians 1:5; CEH prints no quotes). Both witnesses contract line 1 to \"There's sunshine\", eight syllables \u2014 see the meter note above.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "There's sun -- shine in my soul to -- day, More glo -- ri -- ous and bright, Than glows in an -- y earth -- ly sky, For Je -- sus is my light.", "prose": ["There's sunshine in my soul today,", "More glorious and bright,", "Than glows in any earthly sky,", "For Jesus is my light."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "There's mu -- sic in my soul to -- day, A car -- ol to my King, And Je -- sus, lis -- ten -- ing, can hear The songs I can -- not sing.", "prose": ["There's music in my soul today,", "A carol to my King,", "And Jesus, listening, can hear", "The songs I cannot sing."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "There's spring -- time in my soul to -- day, For when the Lord is near, The dove of peace sings in my heart, The flowers of grace ap -- pear.", "prose": ["There's springtime in my soul today,", "For when the Lord is near,", "The dove of peace sings in my heart,", "The flowers of grace appear."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "There's glad -- ness in my soul to -- day, And hope, and praise, and love, For bless -- ings which he gives me now, For joys \"laid up\" a -- bove.", "prose": ["There's gladness in my soul today,", "And hope, and praise, and love,", "For blessings which he gives me now,", "For joys \"laid up\" above."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Oh, there's sun -- shine, Bless -- ed sun -- shine, While the peace -- ful, hap -- py mo -- ments roll; When Je -- sus shows his smil -- ing face, There is sun -- shine in the soul.", "prose": ["Oh, there's sunshine, Blessed sunshine,", "While the peaceful, happy moments roll;", "When Jesus shows his smiling face,", "There is sunshine in the soul."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}