1 When two friends on Easter day
To Emmaus bent their way,
On that Paschal eventide
Christ was walking at their side.
Then their hearts within them glowed
When Himself to them He showed
In the Scriptures as a king
Glorified by suffering.
2 Thou art ever with us, Lord,
Walking in Thy Holy Word;
And Thy voice, O Savior dear.
In that Word we ever hear
What the holy prophets meant
In the Ancient Testament,
Thou art opening to our view
In the brightness of the New.
3 And we, Lord, Thy presence feel
When we at Thy table kneel;
When we feed upon Thee there,
We too at Emmaus are;
Then our eyes are openèd
In the breaking of the bread;
Faith Thee ever present sees
In Thy holy mysteries.
4 Though not kenned by carnal eye,
Yet we know Thee ever nigh;
Though Thou art much further gone,
Even to Thy heav’nly throne,
Yet we, Lord, behold Thy face
Ever in Thy means of grace:
There Thou walkest by our side,
There Thou with us dost abide.
5 Be with us in weal and woe
As we on our journey go;
Be with us in every age
Of our earthly pilgrimage;
And on death’s dark eventide
May we see Thee at our side;
When we rise again, may we
Live for ever, Lord, with Thee!
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #14551
Christopher Wordsworth--nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth--was born in 1807. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high honours, in 1830; M.A. in 1833; D.D. in 1839. He was elected Fellow of his College in 1830, and public orator of the University in 1836; received Priest's Orders in 1835; head master of Harrow School in 1836; Canon of Westminster Abbey in 1844; Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1847-48; Vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks, in 1850; Archdeacon of Westminster, in 1865; Bishop of Lincoln, in 1868. His writings are numerous, and some of them very valuable. Most of his works are in prose. His "Holy Year; or, Hymns for Sundays, Holidays, and other occ… Go to person page >
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