Give us this day our daily bread.
Matthew 6:11
Words: Samuel Longfellow, Hymns of the Spirit 1864.
Music: Puer Nobis Nascitur Trier, Germany, 15th Century. Adapted by Michael Praetorius, 1609. Harmony by George R. Woodward, 1910 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Woodward (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
O God, Thou Giver of all good;
Thy children live by daily food;
And daily must the prayer be said,
Give us this day our daily bread.
The life of earth and seed is Thine;
Suns glow, rains fall, by power divine;
Thou art in all; not e’en the powers
By which we toil for bread are ours.
What large provision Thou hast made!
As large as is Thy children’s need;
How wide the bounteous love is spread!
Wide as the want of daily bread.
Since every day by Thee we live,
May grateful hearts Thy gifts receive;
And may the hands be pure from stain
With which our daily bread we gain.