On night most nights solemn that of

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