Christ My Song - 637
O Bread to pilgrims given - Sacramental Hymn
(Ray Palmer/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
Sacramental Hymn.
"O Esca viatorum."
This hymn has by some been attributed to Thomas Aquinas; Dr. Schaff thinks erroneously. He regards it as belonging to the fourteenth century, the author unknown.
1. O Bread to pilgrims given,
o Food that angels eat,
o Manna sent from heaven,
for heaven-born natures meet!
Give us, for thee long pining,
to eat till richly filled;
till, earth's delights resigning,
our every wish is stilled! PDF - Midi
2. O Water, life-bestowing,
from out the Saviour's heart,
a fountain purely flowing,
a fount of love thou art!
O, let us, freely tasting,
our burning thirst assuage!
Thy sweetness, never wasting,
avails from age to age.
3. 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, death the veil removing,
thy glorious face to see.
1858.
Ray Palmer, in: The Poetical Works of Ray Palmer, 1876, 108.
Translated from the above mentioned Latin hymn.