the meter of the poem does not match any hymn tune of the time. the personal beginning is not well suited to singing as a congregation. the earliest setting to music by otto abel in 1959 used originally only the final stanza. his melody was used for the "evangelisches gesangbuch" as eg 65, in the section "zur jahreswende", and in the as mg 272 in the section "durch das jahr – jahreswende und epiphanias".