"Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence"

When I transcribed "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" back in March, I noticed a small thing about it, and looking at it again recently in order to write this post, I found something else.

The second line in the first verse is "And with fear and trembling stand," sung to this musical phrase (from the tune "Picardy"):

"Trembling" is sung with a melisma (Bb A G), and this articulation gives an impression of the word's meaning.  It's as if the music itself is "trembling."

The fourth line of the third verse is "From the realms of endless day," sung to the same musical phrase.  Here, "endless" is sung with that same melisma, and since the word is stretched out (three syllables instead of two), there's something of a sense of the long time period the word describes.