{"slug": "to-the-hills-i-lift-my-eyes", "title": "Our Unsleeping Guardian", "first_line": "To the hills I lift my eyes", "author_source": "The Psalter, 1912", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [7, 7, 7, 7], "doubled": true, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "psalm": 121, "topics": ["Psalms"], "scripture": ["Psalm 121"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "psalter-1912", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "encoding_origin": "hymnary.org (selection 345) 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 121, selection 345. 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": "To the hills I lift my eyes; Whence shall help for me a -- rise? From the Lord shall come my aid, Who the heav'n and earth has made. He will guide thro' dan -- gers all, Will not suf -- fer thee to fall. He Who safe His peo -- ple keeps Slum -- bers not and nev -- er sleeps.", "prose": ["To the hills I lift my eyes;", "Whence shall help for me arise?", "From the Lord shall come my aid,", "Who the heav'n and earth has made.", "He will guide thro' dangers all,", "Will not suffer thee to fall.", "He Who safe His people keeps", "Slumbers not and never sleeps."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Thy pro -- tec -- tor is the Lord; Shade for thee he will af -- ford. Nei -- ther sun nor moon shall smite, God shall guard by day and night. He will ev -- er keep thy soul; What would harm He will con -- trol. In the home and by the way God will keep thee day by day.", "prose": ["Thy protector is the Lord;", "Shade for thee he will afford.", "Neither sun nor moon shall smite,", "God shall guard by day and night.", "He will ever keep thy soul;", "What would harm He will control.", "In the home and by the way", "God will keep thee day by day."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}