The Hymnal 1982 301
Bread of the world, in mercy broken
- Tune
- rendez à dieu
- Author(s)
- Reginald Heber, 1783-1826
- Composer(s)
- Louis Bourgeois, 1510?-1561?; Claude Goudimel, 1514-1572
- Meter
- 9.8.9.8 D
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1. 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 sinners shed; and be thy feast to us the token that by thy grace our souls are fed.