Jesus Spreads His Banner o'er Us

331 Jesus Spreads His Banner o'er Us

1. Jesus spreads his banner o’er us,
   Cheers our famished souls with food;
   He the banquet spreads before us,
   Of His mystic flesh and blood.
   Precious banquet, bread of heaven,
   Wine of gladness, flowing free;
   May we taste it, kindly given,
   In remembrance, Lord, of Thee.

2. In Thy holy incarnation,
   When the angels sang Thy birth;
   In Thy fasting and temptation,
   In Thy labors on the earth,
   In Thy trial and rejection,
   In Thy sufferings on the tree,
   In Thy glorious resurrection,
   May we, Lord, remember Thee.
                         Rowell Park
                         Methodist Hymnal, 1964 edition

<idle musing>
I'm certainly on a roll for not picking popular hymns. This one occurs in under 100 hymnals. According the Cyberhymnal, the usually omitted first verse is

While the sons of earth retiring,
From the sacred temple roam;
Lord, Thy light and love desiring,
To Thine altar fain we come.
Children of our heavenly Father,
Friends and brethren we would be;
While we round Thy table gather,
May our hearts be one in Thee.

</idle musing>