solemn On that most night of nights

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