Forrmed in the region of the air

Verse 1
Form’d in the region of the air,
The figure might their strength repair,
A while from death reprieve,
But the true Bread from heaven sent down
Who taste in God’s eternal Son
We evermore shall live.

Verse 2
While in this wilderness we dwell,
Our living, quickning Principle,
Thou, Saviour, from above
Dost with Thyself vouchsafe to feed,
And daily thro’ thy members spread
The life of faith and love.

Verse 3
Long as eternal ages last,
Our food shall neither cloy nor waste,
Our souls with love supplied
Shall on Jehovah’s fulness feast,
In Thee alone forever blest,
Forever satisfied.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread that cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die &c.’—[John 6,] v. 49, 50, 51." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 388.
Publishing: Public Domain