And yet sometimes the time sig doesn't materially affect it. "Hail ye sighing sons of sorrow" is no more a great hymn when sung at a normal "Holy Manna" clip than when sung at half staff as the Primitive Baptists are wont. The only reason it's in my hymnal is I think the "expiring insects' cries" (v. 3) are too precious a hymnic phrase to pass up.

Haruo