Growing up as a preacher's kid in churches where we had at least 3 hymns plus offertory music and choir anthem in every service, I found it very common for the hymn leader to announce something like, "Let's all stand and sing the first and last verse of Hymn # ___."
Now, in many hymns that works fine, but there are others where the lyrics have a definite sequential logic to them, and some just don't make much sense unless you sing the whole song.

My mother used to roll her eyes at the "verse sampling" used for some songs.   One Christmas carol stands out.   What on earth sense does it make to have the congregation stand and "sing the first verse of Good King Wenceslaus!?"
LOL