Words: Author unknown, 1661 (O esca viatorum); translated from Latin to English by John Athelstan Laurie Riley in The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906).
Music: "O Esca Viatorum," Louis Bourgeois, 1549
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O Food of men wayfaring,
The bread of angels sharing,
O Manna from on high!
We hunger; Lord, supply us,
Nor Thy delights deny us,
Whose hearts to Thee draw nigh.
O stream of love past telling,
O purest fountain, welling
From out the Savior's side!
We faint with thirst; revive us,
Of Thine abundance give us,
And all we need provide.
O Jesus, by Thee bidden,
We here adore Thee, hidden
'Neath forms of bread and wine.
Grant when the veil is riven,
We may behold, in heaven,
Thy countenance divine.
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