On most solemn nights of night that

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