Religion
Hymns on the Lord's Supper, 82
From Hymns on the Lord's Supper (1745) · Osborn ed., vol. 3 (1869)
Jesu, sinner's Friend, receive us,
Feeble, famishing, and faint;
O Thou Bread of Life, relieve us
Now, or now we die for want:
Lest we faint, and die for ever,
Thou our sinking spirits stay;
Give some token of Thy favour,
Empty send us not away.
We have in the desert tarried
Long, and nothing have to eat;
Comfort us, through wandering wearied,
Feed our souls with living meat;
Still with bowels of compassion
See, Thy helpless people see;
Let us taste Thy great salvation,
Let us feed by faith on Thee.
Codex Note
Attributed to Charles Wesley; Osborn's edition does not distinguish the brothers
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