When I wrote
a post about the Biblical sources of "Dearest Jesus, We Are Here," I noticed a small feature in the music. The hymn is sung to the tune "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier." Here's the second-to-last phrase:
In the third verse, the text here is "In Your arms be shielded ever." As if the demonstrate the duration of that "ever," "shielded" is sung with a melisma (G A G).
