Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Lord may the spirit of this feast
Topic: The Church/The Lord's Supper
Writer: <no first name given> Sigourney
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 519
Page Number: 317, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLord, may the spirit of this feast--
The earnest of thy love--
Maintain a dwelling in our breast
Until we meet above.
The healing sense of pardoned sin,
The hope that never tires,
The strength a pilgrim's race to win,
The joy that heaven inspires:
Still may their light our duties trace
In lines of hallowed flame,
Like that upon the prophet's face,
When from the mount he came.
But if no more with kindred dear
The broken bread we share,
Nor at the banquet-board appear
To breathe the grateful prayer;
Forget us not--when on the bed
Of dire disease we waste,
Or to the chambers of the dead,
And bar of judgment haste.
Forget not--thou who bore the wo
Of Calvary's fatal tree--
Those who within these courts below
Have thus remembered thee.