Text: | Not worthy, Lord, to gather up the crumbs |
Author: | Edward Henry Bickersteth, 1825 - 1906 |
Tune: | ST. FRANCIS |
Composer: | Giuseppe Moschetti, b.1908 |
1 Not worthy, Lord, to gather up the crumbs
With trembling hand, that from thy table fall,
A weary, heavy-laden sinner comes
To plead thy promise and obey thy call.
2 I am not worthy to be thought thy child,
Nor sit the last and lowest at thy board;
Too long a wanderer, and too oft beguiled,
I only ask one reconciling word.
3 I hear thy voice: thou bidd'st me come and rest;
I come, I kneel, I clasp thy pierced feet;
Thou bidd'st me take my place, a welcome guest
Among thy saints, and of thy banquet eat. A-men.
4 My praise can only breathe itself in prayer,
My prayer can only lose itself in thee;
Dwell thou forever in my heart, and there,
Lord, let me sup with thee; sup thou with me.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Not worthy, Lord, to gather up the crumbs |
Author: | Edward Henry Bickersteth, 1825 - 1906 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1958 |
Topic: | Sacraments and Rites: Holy Communion |
Notes: | This hymn may also be sung to PENITENTIA (No. 275) or LANGRAN (No. 366). |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. FRANCIS |
Composer: | Giuseppe Moschetti, b.1908 |
Meter: | 10 10, 10 10. |
Key: | E♭ Major |