nights solemn On that most of night

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