317 This is the hour of banquet and of song

The Hymnal 1982 317

This is the hour of banquet and of song

Tune
morestead
Author(s)
Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889
Composer(s)
Sidney Watson, b. 1903
Meter
10.10.10.10

1. This is the hour of banquet and of song; this is the heavenly table spread for me; here let me feast, and feasting, still prolong the brief, bright hour of fellowship with thee.

2. Too soon we rise; we go our several ways; the feast, though not the love, is past and gone, the Bread and Wine consumed: yet all our days thou still art here with us--our Shield and Sun.

3. Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, yet, passing, points to the glad feast above, giving us foretaste of the festal joy, the Lamb's great marriage feast of bliss and love.

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