#867: In Thee Is Gladness
May. 9th, 2021 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsThe music composer's name is Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, which is pretty impressive. All the alliteration points!
We also get a good amount of "feminine rhymes as disguised masculine ones," starting with the titular sadness/gladness (and it repeats in verse two). "Living"/"cleaving" is an impressive stretch--this is "cleave" in the sense of "cling to," not "cut apart from." The context makes it obvious, thankfully, we wouldn't want to be cleaving (to) Jesus in the second sense.
We also get a good amount of "feminine rhymes as disguised masculine ones," starting with the titular sadness/gladness (and it repeats in verse two). "Living"/"cleaving" is an impressive stretch--this is "cleave" in the sense of "cling to," not "cut apart from." The context makes it obvious, thankfully, we wouldn't want to be cleaving (to) Jesus in the second sense.
