On night of nights that solemn most

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