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Text:Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread
Author:James Montgomery
Tune:ST. AGNES
Composer:John Bacchus Dykes
Media:MIDI file

461. Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread

1. Be known to us in breaking bread,
But do not then depart;
Savior, abide with us, and spread
Thy table in our heart.

2. There eat with us in love divine;
Thy body and Thy blood,
That living bread, that heavenly wine,
Be our immortal food.

Text Information
First Line: Be known to us in breaking bread
Title: Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread
Author: James Montgomery (1825)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Christian Psalmist, 1825
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ST. AGNES
Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1866)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 33323 47155 53224
Key: G Major
Source: Hymnal for Use in the English Church, by John Grey, 1866
Copyright: Public Domain



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