O Bread to pilgrims given

lyricist: Latin
Composer: William Howard Doane

O Bread to pilgrims given

O Food for saints to eat

O Manna sent from heaven

For heav’n-born natures meet;

Give us

for Thee long pining

To eat till richly filled;

Till

earth’s delights resigning

Our every wish is stilled.

O Water

life bestowing

From out the Savior’s heart

A fountain purely flowing

A fount of love Thou art.

Oh

let us

freely tasting

Our burning thirst assuage;

Thy sweetness

never wasting

Avails from age to age.

Jesus

this feast receiving

We Thee unseen adore;

Thy faithful word believing

We take

and doubt no more.

Give us

Thou true and loving

On earth to live in Thee;

Then

God the veil removing

Thy glorious face to see.

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