"Lord of Our Life"

I wrote a post about "Lord of Our Life" a couple years ago, but while looking at the hymn again recently, I found an-other small point to note.  The hymn is sung to the tune "Iste confessor."  Here's the second musical phrase:

In the first verse, the text here is "Star of our night and hope of ev'ry nation."  "Nation" is sung with a melisma (C B A), and because there's an extra syllable and because each syllable is sung to a different pitch, there's a sense of that "ev'ry."