[Music]
'Twas on that dark and doleful night,
When pow'rs of earth and hell arose
Against the Son of God's delight,
And friends betray'd him to his foes.
Before the mournful scene began,
He took the bread and blest and brake;
What love through all his actions ran,
What wondrous words of love he spake.
"This is my body, broke for sin,
Receive and eat the living food;"
Then took the cup and bless'd the wine--
"'Tis the new cov'nant in my blood."
"Do this," he cried, "till time shall end,
In mem'ry of your dying Friend;
Meet at my table and record
The love of your departed Lord."
Jesus, thy feast we celebrate,
We show thy death, we sing thy name.
Till thou return, and we shall eat
The marriage supper of the Lamb.
Words attributed sometimes to Watts. Tune attributed to Freeman Lewis.
Found also, HH 8, GCM 159, SKY 61, MOH 60 and 143, UH 17, GOS 575.
This is the same tune which is used for 'McFee's Confession', Cox, p.
525; 'Samuel Young', Sharp, ii., 271; 'Come, Father Build Me' (as sung
in England), JFSS, viii., 212; and it is similar to 'Lord Bateman',
_One Hundred English Folksongs_, No. 6. For further tune relationship
see 'Kedron' in this collection.
No. 110
GLORIOUS PROSPECT, OL 363