1. When two friends on that glad day
To Emmaus bent their way,
On that Paschal eventide
Christ was walking at their side.
Then their hearts within them glowed
When himself to them he showed
In the Scriptures as a king
Glorified by suffering.
2. You are ever with us, Lord,
Walking in your holy Word;
And that voice, O Savior dear,
In that holy Word hear.
What the holy prophets meant
In the Ancient Testament,
You are op'ning to our view
In the brightness of the New.
3. And we, Lord, your presence feel
When we at your table kneel;
When we feed upon you there,
We too in Emmaus share;
Still we, Lord, behold Thy face
Ever in your means of grace:
There you walk still by our side,
There with us you still abide.
4. Be with us in weal and woe
As we on our journey go;
Be with us in every age
Of our earthly pilgrimage;
And on death’s dark eventide
May we see you at our side;
When we rise again, may we
Live with you eternally.
Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #142
Christopher Wordsworth--nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth--was born in 1807. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high honours, in 1830; M.A. in 1833; D.D. in 1839. He was elected Fellow of his College in 1830, and public orator of the University in 1836; received Priest's Orders in 1835; head master of Harrow School in 1836; Canon of Westminster Abbey in 1844; Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1847-48; Vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks, in 1850; Archdeacon of Westminster, in 1865; Bishop of Lincoln, in 1868. His writings are numerous, and some of them very valuable. Most of his works are in prose. His "Holy Year; or, Hymns for Sundays, Holidays, and other occ… Go to person page >
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