312 - Holy Eucharist

1. Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands that holy things have taken;

let ears that now have heard thy songs to clamor never waken.

2. Lord, may the tongues which "Holy" sang keep free from all deceiving;

the eyes which saw thy love be bright, blessed hope perceiving.

3. The feet that tread thy hallowed courts from light do thou not banish;

the bodies by thy Body fed with thy new life replenish.

Words: Syriac Liturgy of Malabar; tr. Charles William Humphreys (1840-1921); alt. Percy Dearmer (1867-1936) Music: Malabar, David McKinley Williams (1887-1978)