"Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness"

More than once over the last year, I noted some significant melismas in "Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness," sung to the tune "Beach Spring."

The title line is, of course, "Praise the One who breaks the darkness," sung to this phrase:

Although the sense is more metaphorical, that "darkness" is sung with a melisma (G F D) gives a sense of that "break[ing]."

Near the end of the first verse, there's the description "Calming storms, and feeding thousands," sung to this phrase:

Here, "thousands" is sung with a melisma (also G F D), giving a sense of amount.