What Man Is There of You? + 

The homely words how often read! + 

How seldom fully known! + 

“Which father of you, asked for bread, + 

Would give his son a stone?” + 

How oft has bitter tear been shed, + 

And heaved how many a groan, + 

Because thou wouldst not give for bread + 

The thing that was a stone! + 

How oft the child thou wouldst have fed, + 

Thy gift away has thrown! + 

He prayed, thou heard’st, and gav’st the bread: + 

He cried, “It is a stone!” + 

Lord, if I ask in doubt and dread + 

Lest I be left to moan, + 

Am I not he who, asked for bread, + 

Would give his son a stone? + 