Bread of the world

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Bread of the world,
in mercy broken.
Wine of the soul,
in mercy shed,
by whom the words of life were spoken,
and in whose death our sins are dead:
look on the heart by sorrow broken,
look on the tears by sinner shed;
and be thy feast to us the token
that by thy grace our souls are fed.

Words: Reginald Heber (18thC)
Music: Rendez á Dieu, attributed to Louis Bourgeois (16thC)
Sequence: Dall Forsthye, Church of St. John the Evangelist