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,
By 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!

OUR DAILY BREAD POEM