Author of Life Divine

Music: Author of Life John Stainer, in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1875 (🔊 pdf nwc).

Alternate Tunes:

Auctor Vitae H. Walford Davies, in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1916 (🔊 pdf nwc)
Dolgelly Welsh hymn tune (🔊 pdf nwc)
Gweedore Samuel S. Wesley, in A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, by Charles Kemble (London: John F. Shaw, 1864), number 16 (🔊 pdf nwc)
Rhosymedre John D. Edwards, 1840 (🔊 pdf nwc)

Author of life divine,
Who hast a table spread,
Furnished with mystic wine
And everlasting bread,
Preserve the life Thyself hast given,
And feed and train us up for Heav’n.

Our needy souls sustain
With fresh supplies of love,
Till all Thy life we gain,
And all Thy fullness prove,
And, strengthened by Thy perfect grace,
Behold without a veil Thy face.

Supper at Emmaus
Willem Herreyns
1743–1827

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