Our Daily Bread

Give us our daily Bread, O God, the bread of strength! For we have learnt to know How weak we are at length. As children we are weak, As children must be fed;— Give us Thy Grace, O Lord, To be our daily Bread.

Give us our daily Bread:— The bitter bread of grief. We sought earth’s poisoned feasts For pleasure and relief; We sought her deadly fruits, But now, O God, instead, We ask thy healing grief To be our daily Bread.

Give us our daily Bread To cheer our fainting soul; The feast of comfort, Lord, And peace, to make us whole: For we are sick of tears, The useless tears we shed;— Now give us comfort, Lord, To be our daily Bread.

Give us our daily Bread, The Bread of Angels, Lord, For us, so many times, Broken, betrayed, adored: His Body and His Blood;— The feast that Jesus spread: Give Him—our life, our all— To be our daily Bread!