"God's Own Child, I Gladly Say It"

A number of years ago, I wrote a post about some small features in "God's Own Child, I Gladly Say It," but when it was the hymn in a Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service recently (on 16 April), I found more to add.  The third line of the fourth verse is "When I die, I leave all sadness," sung to this musical phrase from the tune "Bachofen":

"All" is sung with a melisma (G F), and the phrase "All sadness" is sung to notes of all different pitches (G F E C).  Both of these articulations provide a sense of breadth or entirety.