#785: When Peace like a River

The chorus has an example of bass (and alto and tenor) echoes; "It is well (it is well) with my soul (with my soul)." The verse feature a lot of unique rhymes for "soul," too.

There was a novelist from Minnesota who used this as a title for his book about spirituality on the prairie back in the day. One of the first chapters was "When sorrows like sea billows roll," which is from the second line. One of the last chapters is "Be jubilant, my feet" which is an allusion to this one. Since I went to high school in Minnesota, we read this and wrote about it. At parent-teacher conferences, the teacher was like "so-and-so's essay was really good!" And my mom said "oh, well I haven't read the book yet, but I'll read it for book club at some point and then I'll have to read the essay." *time passes* "Where's your essay, it was supposed to be good?" Me: "...I didn't even like the book, I assume I recycled it." "...oh." But then it randomly turned up a couple years later, so cool, you can read it now!

(The book was probably too heavy for me. ~Symbolism~ woo! Yeah I don't care, sorry.)