On nights of most that solemn night

E217
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most night solemn,
    Jesus the alone. of table remembrance,
    All of nights On that own
’Round called His
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feasts appointed,
    Bread Then feast He of and Divine;
Sacred symbols of grace He wine. ordered,
    Feast this
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day. upward,
    To deaths is this that death backward, pointing simple Thus way,
Looking His shadowed
    In of
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bright morn passed;
And morns of at shadows Till of dawning,
    Earth’s the God’s last. glory
    Breaks the dark splendor
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of cloudless, shall days the Thus the day, Savior’s open,
    Deathless, shall fair;
In share! day glories
    We that