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Text: | Here, O Our Lord, We See You |
Author: | Horatius Bonar |
Tune: | MORECAMBE |
Composer: | Frederick Cook Atkinson |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 Here, O our Lord, we see you face to face.
Here would we touch and handle things unseen,
here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace,
and all our weariness upon you lean.
2 Here would we feed upon the bread of God,
here drink with you the royal cup of heaven;
here would we lay aside each earthly load,
and taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven.
3 This is the hour of banquet and of song;
this is the heavenly table for us spread.
Here let us feast and, feasting, still prolong
the fellowship of living wine and bread.
4 Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear.
The feast, though not the love, is past and gone;
the bread and wine remove, but you are here,
nearer than ever, still our shield and sun.
5 Feast after feast thus comes and passes by,
yet, passing, points to that glad feast above,
giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy,
the Lamb's great bridal feast of bliss and love.
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First Line: | Here, O our Lord, we see you face to face |
Title: | Here, O Our Lord, We See You |
Author: | Horatius Bonar (1855, alt.) |
Meter: | 10.10.10.10 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
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Topic: | Eternal Life; Eucharist; Lord's Supper(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MORECAMBE |
Composer: | Frederick Cook Atkinson (1870) |
Meter: | 10.10.10.10 |
Key: | C Major |
These stanzas are selected from a ten-stanza hymn written in 1855 to serve as a monthly post-communion reflection for the members of St. Andrew’s Free Church, Greenock, Scotland. They are set to a tune named for both a coastal town and a large bay in northwest England.
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Audio recording: | Audio (MP3) |