As if you were not there (StF 724)

Authors & translators:
Bell, John L. (auth)
Authors & translators:
Maule, Graham
Metre:
Irregular
Tune:
Ilich
Composers & arrangers:
Bell, John L. (comp)
Metre:
67.88.9.
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.

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