Give us, O Lord, the children’s bread

Verse 1
Give us, O Lord, the children’s bread,
By ministerial angels fed,
(The angels of thy church below)
Nourish us with preserving grace
Our forty years or forty days,
And lead us thro’ the vale of woe:

Verse 2
Strengthen’d by this immortal food,
O let us reach the mount of God,
And face to face our Saviour see,
In songs of praise and love and joy,
With all thy first-born sons employ
An happy whole eternity.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in a hymnal jointly credited to John and Charles Wesley; it is likely though not fully certain that Charles wrote it. Introduced in Hymns on the Lord's Supper, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 299.
Publishing: Public Domain