
1. Here at your table, Lord, this sacred hour,
Oh, let us feel you near in loving pow'r;
Calling our thoughts away from self and sin
As to your banquet hall we enter in.
2. Sit at the feast, dear Lord, break thou the bread;
Fill now the cup that brings life to the dead,
That we may find in you pardon and peace,
And from all bondage win a full release.
3. So shall our life of faith be full, be sweet,
And we shall find our strength for each day meet.
Fed by your living bread, all hunger past,
We shall be satisfied, and filled at last.
4. Come then, O holy Christ; feed us, we pray;
Touch with your pierced hand each common day,
Making this earthly life full of your grace,
Till at your side in love we find our place.
Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #125b
May (Mary) Pierpont Hoyt, born 1849 in South Avon, N.Y., daughter of Uriah Grandison Hoyt and Emma G. Pierpont. Her mother died in 1856 when she was 7 years old. She attended Oread Collegiate Institute in Worcester, Mass., a school for women, from 1862-1863. She then returned to Rochester, N.Y. and attended Livingston Park Seminary, another school for women. She graduated from Livingston and taught there for two years, and then taught for two years in the public schools. She later moved to Albany, living with a friend for twenty years until the friend remarried. she then lived at the Albany Hospital. She claims to have written two hymns appearing in "Church Hymnary" (edited by Edwin A. Bedell, published in 1900 by Maynard, Merrill & Co.) No… Go to person page >| First Line: | Here at Thy table, Lord, This sacred hour |
| Title: | Here at Thy Table, Lord |
| Author: | May P. Hoyt |
| Meter: | 6.4.6.4 D |
| Place of Origin: | Albany, New York |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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