I saw Bill Moyers' Amazing Grace show last Sunday on my local Public Television station, and he and Jessie Norman were discussing some stanza I'd never heard of before (not one of the original John Newton stanzas, but one Bill and Jessie both knew) that contained imagery of "disrobing". I did a search and came up with one page that has the verse:

    

11. We lay our garments by 
  Upon our beds to rest
  'Though death may soon disrobe us all
  Of what we now possess.     

But unfortunately it is (glaringly) two syllables shy of Common Metre in the incipit. Anybody know what the missing syllables are supposed to be? "We lay our something garments by", or "We sometime lay our garments by" or conceivably even "We lay our garments by upon / Our some such beds to rest"... ??

Liland

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Liland, you still need to use line breaks - <br> - for the pre-formatted text. I added them. --JoeClone