"Entrust Your Days and Burdens"

Last month, I wrote a post on the Biblical sources for "Entrust Your Days and Burdens" (to be published later this year).  While doing so, I noticed a few musical features.  The hymn is sung to the tune "Sufficientia."  Here's the third musical phrase:

In the third verse, the text here is "God helps in ev'ry trial."  The phrase "ev'ry trial" is sung to notes of almost all different pitches, and "trial" is sung with a melisma (F E D C).  Both of these features provide a sense of the entirety of "ev'ry."

The fourth musical phrase:

In the fourth verse, the text here is "At all His love can do" (continuing the sense from the previous lines "His wisdom rules for you / In ways to rouse your wonder"), and in the sixth verse, the text is "Of all our life's distress" (again continuing the sense from the previous lines "With joy our spirits bless / Until we see the ending").  In both of these, "all" is sung with a melisma (A G), musically giving a sense of entirety.

"Entrust Your Days and Burdens"

Because I publish only one of these types of posts a week, there's a difference of a few months between when I notice something and when I actually write about it, and because of that, I can't quite remember the circumstances under which I lookt at "Entrust Your Days and Burdens" back in May (I think was a hymn I'd sung in church that week).

In any case, I noticed something about the line "Make His work your foundation" in the second verse.  The hymn is sung to the tune "Sufficientia," and that particular line is sung to this phrase (with the notes to which "foundation" is sung in brackets):

The tune is in C major, and the first and last syllables of "foundation" are sung to C notes.  C is the note that the key is based on, so there's a musical representation of that "foundation."