Sunday, August 25, 2019
"And Thou hast freely given | what earth could never buy, | The bread of life from heaven, | That now I shall not die"
Johann Rist, "Wie wohl hast du gelabet," stanza 2, as trans. Catherine Winkworth, in "O Living Bread from Heaven, in Lyra Germanica (London: George Newnes Limited; New York: Charles Scribener's Sons, 1855), 283-286. The original: Neuer himmlischer Lieder (1651), 76-81. See also Hymnary.org.
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