Sweet feast of love divine

Sweet feast of love divine! Edward Denny* (1796-1889). From Denny’s Hymns and Poems (1848), where it was entitled ‘The Lord’s Supper’ and preceded by two quotations: ‘“This do in remembrance of me.” – Luke xxii. 19’ and ‘“Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved!” – Cant. V.1’ (many hymns have references to Canticles, presumably in a collection with which Denny was familiar): Sweet feast of love divine!  ’Tis grace that makes us freeTo feed upon this bread and wine,  In memory, Lord, of Thee. The utter simplicity of this stanza is very moving. Stanza 2 is: Here every welcome guest  Waits, Lord, from Thee to learnThe secrets of Thy Father’s breast,  And all Thy grace...