Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SACRAMENT OF FOOD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY


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THE SACRAMENT OF FOOD, by                    
First Line: Each meal should be a sacramental feast
Last Line: And pass, -- to live more worthily again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Religion; Sacraments; Theology


Each meal should be a sacramental feast, --
A Eucharist each breaking of the bread,
Wherein we meet again our Great High Priest,
And pledge new troth to our exalted Head.

For all we eat doth come of sacrifice, --
Life out of Death, -- since all we eat must yield
Life for our living, -- and yet, nothing dies,
But in its giving finds its life fulfilled.

The wheat, the plant, the beast, and man, all give,
Each of their best, God's purpose to maintain,
And all subserve the end for which all live,
And pass, -- to live more worthily again.





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