Yeah. Ponder a new what?

The people who do the modernizations are not usually half the poets the original lyricists were (alas, that's often been the case with earlier "alt."erers of hymn texts, too), and they're usually, it seems, working off of checklists. Check to make sure the thee's and thou's have been removed (and if you happen to remember, do something to sort of restore the rhymes). Etc. I write a lot of parodic verse, but most of my parodies are better as rhymed English lyrics than a lot of what you find in some of the more recent hymnals. (Not exactly bragging, just stating the facts, ma'am.)

Liland