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Hymnal Number
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Keys included:
C
About this Hymn
The disciples gathered for the Passover meal, and Jesus was there. They talked with him, and he with them. Now, in the Lord's Supper, inaugurated at that time (1 Cor. 11:23–26), he is present still (Matt. 18:20; 28:20), but it is an invisible, spiritual presence. We can only pray that the Spirit of God would enlighten our souls to perceive him in a new way as we gather at his table. And that is the prayer of this wonderful hymn. – Robert Cottrill
Lyrics
Verse 1
Here, O our Lord, we see you face to face. Here would we touch and handle things unseen, here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace, and all our weariness upon you lean.
Verse 2
Here would we feed upon the bread of God, here drink with you the royal cup of heav'n; here would we lay aside each earthly load, and taste afresh the calm of sin forgiv'n.
Verse 3
This is the hour of banquet and of song; this is the heav'nly table for us spread. Here let us feast and, feasting, still prolong the fellowship of living wine and bread.
Verse 4
Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear. The feast, though not the love, is past and gone; the bread and wine remove, but you are here, nearer than ever, still our Shield and Sun.
Verse 5
Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, yet, passing, points to that glad feast above, giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy, the Lamb's great bridal feast of bliss and love.
Here, O our Lord, we see you face to face. Here would we touch and handle things unseen, here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace, and all our weariness upon you lean.
Verse 2
Here would we feed upon the bread of God, here drink with you the royal cup of heav'n; here would we lay aside each earthly load, and taste afresh the calm of sin forgiv'n.
Verse 3
This is the hour of banquet and of song; this is the heav'nly table for us spread. Here let us feast and, feasting, still prolong the fellowship of living wine and bread.
Verse 4
Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear. The feast, though not the love, is past and gone; the bread and wine remove, but you are here, nearer than ever, still our Shield and Sun.
Verse 5
Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, yet, passing, points to that glad feast above, giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy, the Lamb's great bridal feast of bliss and love.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words: Horatius Bonar, 1855, alt.
Music: Frederick C. Atkinson, 1870
Music: Frederick C. Atkinson, 1870