Choral Akari Archive

For the Bread and for the Wine

Hymn Information

Folder: Main I, no. 28
Tune used, name: 'Irene (Scholefield)'
Composer: Scholefield, Clement Cotterill (1839–1904); composed in 1874
Lyricist: Bonar, Horatius (1808–1889); written in 1874
Source used for representative text: from hymnary.org, Together in Song: Australian hymn book II #518

Resources and Audios

Sheet music, project file and MIDI:

Audio files (separate parts for Lead, Accompaniment I, Accompaniment II and Bass):

Audio file (all parts combined):

Representative Text

1
For the bread and for the wine,
for the pledge that seals him mine,
for the words of love divine,
we give you thanks, O Lord.

2
For the feast of love and peace,
bidding all our sorrows cease,
foretaste of the kingdom's bliss,
we give you thanks, O Lord.

3
This the bread and this the wine,
yet to faith the solemn sign
of the heavenly and divine!
we give you thanks, O Lord.

4
Till he comes we take the bread,
type of him on whom we feed,
him who lives and once was dead:
we give you thanks, O Lord.

5
Till he comes we take the cup;
as we at his table sup
eye and heart are lifted up:
we give you thanks, O Lord.

6
For that coming here foreshown,
for that day to man unknown,
for the glory and the throne,
we give you thanks, O Lord.