DAILY BREAD by Emily Tolman

Pacific Press Publishing Association

DAILY BREAD.

By Emily Tolman

BY EMILY TOLMAN.

"Give us this day our daily bread"— What need have I to pray this prayer Whose table every day is spread With bounteous fare?

"Hast thou no hunger, then?" one said. "Is every want quite satisfied? And for thy mind's sustaining bread Hast never cried?"

"Or, if thy mind has all its share, Is there no hunger of the heart For love, that in this daily prayer May have a part?"

"Are body, mind, and heart all fed? Yet surely then thy soul hast need; 'Give us this day our daily bread,' Thou still mayst plead."

"Whatever hungry want be thine, Thy Father's house hath bread to spare. Oh, then thou canst no longer pine; Enough is there!"

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