The Cyber Hymnal 461. Be known to us in breaking bread

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Text:	Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread
Author:	James Montgomery
Tune:	ST. AGNES
Composer:	John Bacchus Dykes
Media:	MIDI file

1. Be known to us in breaking bread,
But do not then depart;
Savior, abide with us, and spread
Thy table in our heart.

2. There eat with us in love divine;
Thy body and Thy blood,
That living bread, that heavenly wine,
Be our immortal food.

Text Information
First Line:	Be known to us in breaking bread
Title:	Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread
Author:	James Montgomery (1825)
Meter:	CM
Language:	English
Source:	Christian Psalmist, 1825
Copyright:	Public Domain

Tune Information
Name:	ST. AGNES
Composer:	John Bacchus Dykes (1866)
Meter:	CM
Incipit:	33323 47155 53224
Key:	G Major
Source:	Hymnal for Use in the English Church, by John Grey, 1866
Copyright:	Public Domain

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