Wond’ring at the love that crown’d us,
Glad to join the holy song;
Hallelujah, hallelujah,
Love and praise to Christ belong.
The tune is evidently a remake of ‘Locks and Bolts’. Compare, for example, Sharp, ii., 19. The difference between the two tunes is probably due in part to their structure, which provided real difficulties for their recorders, and in part to the efforts of the Bible Songs arranger to make the apparently dorian tune fit into current scale formulas. Compare also ‘Bed of Primroses’, Thomas, p. 176.
No. 90
[MOUNT WATSON], OL 272
Heptatonic dorian, mode 2 A + B (I II 3 IV V VI 7)
Death shall not destroy my comfort,
Christ shall guide me thro’ the gloom;