Hunger + 

Father, I cry to thee for bread + 

With hungred longing, eager prayer; + 

Thou hear’st, and givest me instead + 

More hunger and a half-despair. + 

O Lord, how long? My days decline, + 

My youth is lapped in memories old; + 

I need not bread alone, but wine⁠— + 

See, cup and hand to thee I hold! + 

And yet thou givest: thanks, O Lord, + 

That still my heart with hunger faints! + 

The day will come when at thy board + 

I sit, forgetting all my plaints. + 

If rain must come and winds must blow, + 

And I pore long o’er dim-seen chart, + 

Yet, Lord, let not the hunger go, + 

And keep the faintness at my heart. + 