I am the living bread which came down from Heaven.
John 6:51
Words: Author unknown, 1661 (O esca viatorum). Translated from Latin to English by J. Athelstan Riley in The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906), number 321.
Music: O Esca Viatorum Louis Bourgeois, 1549 (🔊 pdf nwc).
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If you know where to get a good picture of Bourgeois (head-and-shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
O food of men wayfaring,
The bread of angels sharing,
O manna from on high!
We hunger; Lord, supply us,
Nor Thy delights deny us,
Whose hearts to Thee draw nigh.
O stream of love past telling,
O purest fountain, welling
From out the Savior’s side!
We faint with thirst; revive us,
Of Thine abundance give us,
And all we need provide.
O Jesus, by Thee bidden,
We here adore Thee, hidden
’Neath forms of bread and wine.
Grant when the veil is riven,
We may behold, in heaven,
Thy countenance divine.