"The Tree of Life"

When I wrote a post on the Biblical sources for "The Tree of Life" last year, I noticed a small connection between the text and the tune, the similarly titled "Tree of Life."

The first two lines of the fourth verse are "Now from that tree of Jesus' shame / Flows life eternal in His name."  The second of these lines is sung to this musical phrase:

"Eternal" is sung with a melisma (A G G F), and this elongation gives a sense of that duration.