"In Thee Is Gladness"

Back in July, one of the hymns in church was "In Thee Is Gladness."  It's sung to the tune "In Dir ist Freude" (which means essentially the same thing, just in German), in which there are a few cross inscriptions.  I think there's only one that connects to the hymn text though:

In the first verse, the line here is "Our bonds Thou breakest," which Christ did in His crucifixion and resurrection.

While looking at the hymn in order to write this post, I noticed an-other small feature.  There are three lines in the hymn where "forever" is sung with a melisma.  Drawing it out to four syllables (rather than just three) gives a sense of eternity.  Here's the musical phrase:

The three lines sung to this phrase are "He stands forever" in the first verse and "In Him forever" and "Glad hymns forever" in the second.