#712: Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service

[lutheranhymns]

This is another one of those "pentatonic scale, but only in the melody line" arrangements. Lines 1 and 2 are the same; the bass line is slowly descending (sometimes it repeats the same note a few times, but always the same or lower than the one before). The altos do something similar in the last line, but rise from a G to A at the end. (G is relatively low for altos, at least in this hymnal, so maybe it's for the best we don't have to hold it.)

Interesting turn of phrase: "in [your light's] height and depth and greatness." Greatness as a measure of dimensionality? Martin Gardner has riffed on some of Paul's allusions to "height and depth etc" in his "Church of the Fourth Dimension" article, which apparently went over so well people didn't know it was satire.