Tune: Margaret
('O love that wilt not let me go')
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Here tokens sure be of your passion
You, Jesus, God the Father's own Son
Bread, wine, simply displayed, inviting
Us to come to you, our lives bring
To you hymns, praises sing
A time alighting, preparation
Your redemption for each nation
You the Priest and Victim, this feast
Open to greatest as to least
From north, west, south, and east
So hearts, minds, lives, gracious anointing
You who know us through, everything
Yet bid us sinners be forgiven
From your hands, feet, and side riven
Your life for us given
And meekly kneeling at altar rail
These gifts shall help, strengthen, not fail
We take, eat, drink, we by you fed
You Lord risen e'er from the dead
Now you our living Head
Here hymns, songs in contemplation
Bright joys of your love, and elation
Blessed comforts here, eternal life sure
Who eats and drinks of you e'ermore
Lives in you safe, secure
So taking your life to share out
To help, encourage others from doubt
To inspire faith in them, that they
With us may too all watch and pray
'Til dawns e'erlasting day
Take us, take me, your Spirit fill
With your power, to help those still
Who none, or part, your gospel know
That so here on your earth below
Your kingdom, [and] will, [may] full grow
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: August 19th, 2017 10:59
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 88886 metre for Communion. Could be used any time too.
- Category: Spiritual
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Comments7
I have taken some words and phrases here and there from the Communion Service, and from hymns, in writing this.
Gasp!
Nicely done once again. This time I noticed your use of synonyms for certain words. As in using "Head" for "Lord". Well played.
Thanks N. I aim to use capital 'H' too, for 'Him'. Then I use small 'h' for him or her, referring to people. I could go further, I suppose, and put 'You' instead of 'you'. Unless the 'You' is the first word of a sentence, in which case it will be 'You' anyway. And so on! Whether God can be called Him or Her, or both, is another matter!
More like a mystery. haha. You've got some strange skills. I'll pick up on some more in due time I'm sure.
You mean my use of the capitals is a mystery?
No, I meant the gender of God, lol. Not your grammar usage xD
Ahh lol. Now I've opened that gender 'can of worms' maybe! We might say God is neither He or She. But I think it stems from Jewish writings choosing 'He' over 'She', as women were generally rather rubbished in those olden times, or at least seen as inferior. Some hymns, perhaps more modern ones, won't use 'He'. They put 'God' every time.
Yeah. The modernized version of religious scriptures have to adhere to the human race's sensitivity about different subjects it seems. Too many people getting upset over a word. I agree that God is an "It" rather than a he or she. We'll never really know, of course. Not in this life anyway~
My view is that God is not an 'It', but is an eternal Being. We can picture 'no end' maybe, but will blow our finite minds to try to picture 'no beginning'! I suppose this politically-correct gender thing may creep into Scriptures too in time - if not already.
I say "It" because I'm not too sure what an "Eternal being" is, when in reference to God. I see your point though.
From the comments above this is even more complicated than I thought - great work O
Thanks M. I may use 'spiritual' language, words, etc, at times. But I hope I don't get too complicated to know what I'm on about! lol. If I don't know what I'm on about, how is anyone else gonna know?! I started it - mentioning he or she. doh!
A spiritual read which being based on the tune of a family favourite hymn (Oh love that wilt not let me go) brought back memories my friend and had me humming to the words and phrases.
Thanks Fay.
Great Job, Orchie!!! 🙂
Thanks Lizzy.
Beautiful, thanks for sharing orchidee.
Thanks AP.
Another good one Orchi.
Thanks G/F.
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