Stay with us, Lord, the day is travelled far;we meet thee at its close.Lord, at our humble table sit and share,and be, our sweet repose.
Pledge of our hospitality, the breadis broken by thy hands;our quaking love, our most confiding dreadbeholds and understands.
Food of our souls enlightens and updriesour darkness and our tears;the breaker and the broken to our eyesis all, and disappears.
We cannot be without thee, Lord, becausethe night is perilous;and anxiously our earthly journey drawsto evening; stay with us.
