Luke 9:17: There was taken up of fragments...twelve, &c

Dispenser of the joyful word
Who at the banquet of his Lord
The people and himself hath fed,
Win gather up with pious care,
And in his faithful memory bear,
The fragments of that heavenly bread;
Will fear a single word to lose,
On every sacred saying muse,
And meditate and pray them o'er;
Each precious truth resolve, digest,
And lengthen out the gospel feast,
Replete, yet hungering still for more.