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Before the Sacrament
By Reginald Heber (17831826)
B
Wine of the soul, in mercy shed;
By Whom the words of life were spoken,
And in Whose death our sins are dead:
Look on the tears by sinners shed,
And be Thy feast to us the token
That by Thy grace our souls are fed.