Give Ye Them to Eat

(Matthew 14:15-21)
6,6,8,6

O give ye them to eat,
The gentle Master said;
Since it is righteous and meet
That every soul be fed.

Fed by the Truth divine,
With Holy Word inspired;
To Oversoul and hearts inclined,
All error soon retired.

One’s hunger and one’s thirst
For Truth is ever set;
‘Til all the world is freed at last,
And every need is met,

O give ye them to eat,
Truth’s manna is for all;
We must not sit in judgment seat,
Lest we ourselves should fall.

The hungry must be fed,
Since Truth shall e’er remain;
The sick and sorrowing be led
To health and peace again.

Since bread alone is spare,
And cannot satisfy;
‘Tis Truth alone that lifts each care,
When man on Truth relies.

Rev. Paul Lachlan Peck
From “365 Meditations in Prose and Poetry”
To be published soon