"Come unto Me, Ye Weary"

In a church service last summer, one of the hymns was "Come unto Me, Ye Weary," and I noticed a small feature in it.

One of the lines in the third verse is "The fight is fierce and long," sung to this phrase from the tune "Anthes":

"Long" is sung to a dotted half note, and since this is the longest note value in the hymn (there's a dotted half note at the end of every other phrase), there's a musical sense of that duration.