As if you were not there (StF 724)
- Authors & translators:
- Bell, John L. (auth)
- Authors & translators:
- Maule, Graham
- Theme:
- Nature and Mystery of God
- Metre:
- Irregular
- Tune:
- Ilich
- Composers & arrangers:
- Bell, John L. (comp)
- Metre:
- 67.88.9.
- Theme:
- Wholeness of Creation
- Source:
- Singing the Faith: 724 (CD29 #24)
- Verses:
- 5
- STF Number:
- 724
More information
A short exhange between StF+ users raised a couple of questions about the last two lines of the first verse:
"all beware
as if you were not there."
Is the word "beware" a misprint, asks Derek Long. Would it help if there was a comma following that word, suggests Ian Howarth.
Graham Maule, the hymn's co-author, confirms that the words "all beware", rather than being a command, are descriptive (all are wary), and that the comma is optional. "As if you were not there" is published in Love From Below with a comma after "all beware" but in When Grief is Raw (also a Wild Goose publication) without.