What Man Is There Of You?

The homely words how often read! How seldom fully known! "Which father of you, asked for bread, Would give his son a stone?" How oft has bitter tear been shed, And heaved how many a groan, Because thou wouldst not give for bread The thing that was a stone! How oft the child thou wouldst have fed, Thy gift away has thrown! He prayed, thou heard'st, and gav'st the bread: He cried, "It is a stone!" Lord, if I ask in doubt and dread Lest I be left to moan, Am I not he who, asked for bread, Would give his son a stone?