If you can't find the original text, any text written in long meter will work. For those who have forgotten high school English class, long meter is a quatrain written in iambic tetrameter, or 4 lines of 8 syllables each with a light-HEAVY pattern to each pair of syllables. Most hymnals list the meter of their entries, and you can pair anything written in long meter (or sometimes called 8.8.8.8) with this tune.
Let us know what you come up with. 
--dbh
When given a choice, most people will choose.
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