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THE LORD’S SUPPER 33
Read the Form of Communion, and in chimed the organ
and anthem;
O! Holy Lamb of God, who takest away our
transgressions,
Hear us! give us thy peace! have mercy, have mercy upon
us!
Th’ old man, with trembling hand, and heavenly pearls
on his eyelids,
Filled now the chalice and paten, and dealt round the
mystical symbols.
O! then seemed it to me, as if God, with the broad eye
of mid-day,
Clearer looked in at the windows, and all the trees in the
church-yard
Bowed down their summits of green, and the grass on the
graves ’gan to shiver.
But in the children, (I noted it well; I knew it) there ran a
Tremor of holy rapture along through their icy-cold
members.
Decked like an altar before them, there stood the green
earth, and above it
Heaven opened itself, as of old before Stephen; there saw
they
Radiant in glory the Father, and on his right hand the
Redeemer.
Under them hear they the clang of harpstrings, and angels
from gold clouds
Beckon to them like brothers, and fan with their pinions
of purple.
Closed was the Teacher’s task, and with heaven in their
hearts and their faces,
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