The Sinner — Christ the Way of Life

When, marshaled on the nightly plain

No. 365
Metre L. M.
Tune MISSIONARY CHANT.
Words Henry Kirke White.
Music Heinrich C. Zeuner.
Key A-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 3/2
4 stanzas

Words

When, marshaled on the nightly plain,The glittering host bestud the sky,One star alone of all the trainCan fix the sinner's wandering eye.

Once on the raging seas I rode;The storm was loud, the night was dark,The ocean yawned, and rudely blowedThe wind that tossed my foundering bark.

Deep horror then my vitals froze;Death-struck, I ceased the tide to stem;When suddenly a star arose,—It was the Star of Bethlehem.

It was my guide, my light, my all;It bade my dark forebodings cease;And through the storm and danger's thrallIt led me to the port of peace.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE SINNER—CHRIST THE WAY OF LIFE.»; hymn number «365» (large), tune name «MISSIONARY CHANT. L. M.» centred over the music (capitals and small capitals), «HEINRICH C. ZEUNER.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «When,». Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the reference line «212, 336, 58.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 212, 336 or 58); lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented. «Henry Kirke White.» in italics after stanza 4. The last word of stanza 2, «bark.», is turned onto a line of its own for want of room; it is joined to its verse here. The print sets a thin space before «;» («rode ;», «froze ;», «stem ;», «all ;», «cease ;»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly apostrophe is written straight («danger's»). The stanza numbers of the text column are printed without a period («2», «3», «4»); they are written «2.» … here, like the interlinear «1.», as in the other deliveries of this book. In stanza 4 line 4 the «o» of «of» is a broken letter (it prints like an «n»); it is the word «of». Spelling («marshaled», «blowed», «foundering»), punctuation and capitals are the print's.