Canst thou then without compassion
Me thy faint disciple see,
Hungring after thy salvation,
Perishing for want of thee?
Dying, till the grace is given,
Only for thy grace I pine:
Feed me, Lord, with bread from heaven,
Fill my soul with love divine.
Canst Thou then without compassion
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I have compassion on the multitude.”—[Matt.] xv. 32. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 294.
Publishing: Public Domain