{"slug": "to-thee-o-lord-i-fly", "title": "Immortality and Resurrection", "first_line": "To Thee, O Lord, I fly", "author_source": "The Psalter, 1912", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [6, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": true, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "psalm": 16, "topics": ["Psalms"], "scripture": ["Psalm 16"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "psalter-1912", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "encoding_origin": "hymnary.org (selection 29) 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 16, selection 29. 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 Thee, O Lord, I fly And on Thy help de -- pend; Thou art my Lord and King Most High; Do Thou my soul de -- fend. I praise the Lord a -- bove Whose coun -- sel guides a -- right; My heart in -- structs me in His love In sea -- sons of the night.", "prose": ["To Thee, O Lord, I fly", "And on Thy help depend;", "Thou art my Lord and King Most High;", "Do Thou my soul defend.", "I praise the Lord above", "Whose counsel guides aright;", "My heart instructs me in His love", "In seasons of the night."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "I keep be -- fore me still The Lord Whom I have proved; At my right hand He guards from ill, And I shall not be moved. My heart is glad and blest, My soul its joy shall tell; And, lo, my flesh in hope shall rest, And still in safe -- ty dwell.", "prose": ["I keep before me still", "The Lord Whom I have proved;", "At my right hand He guards from ill,", "And I shall not be moved.", "My heart is glad and blest,", "My soul its joy shall tell;", "And, lo, my flesh in hope shall rest,", "And still in safety dwell."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "My soul in death's dark pit Shall not be left by Thee; cor -- rup -- tion Thou wilt not per -- mit Thy ho -- ly one to see. Life's path -- way Thou wilt show, To Thy right hand wilt guide, Where streams of plea -- sure ev -- er flow, And bound -- less joys a -- bide.", "prose": ["My soul in death's dark pit", "Shall not be left by Thee;", "corruption Thou wilt not permit", "Thy holy one to see.", "Life's pathway Thou wilt show,", "To Thy right hand wilt guide,", "Where streams of pleasure ever flow,", "And boundless joys abide."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}