| Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903. | | | | The Holy Eucharist | | By Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) |
| | | HONEY in the lion’s mouth, | |
| Emblem mystical, divine, | |
| How the sweet and strong combine; | |
| Cloven rock for Israel’s drouth; | |
| Treasure-house of golden grain, | 5 |
| By our Joseph laid in store, | |
| In his brethren’s famine sore | |
| Freely to dispense again; | |
| Dew on Gideon’s snowy fleece; | |
| Well from bitter changed to sweet; | 10 |
| Shew-bread laid in order meet, | |
| Bread whose cost doth not increase | |
| Though no rain in April fall; | |
| Horeb’s manna, freely given, | |
| Showered in white dew from heaven, | 15 |
| Marvellous, angelical; | |
| Weightiest bunch of Canaan’s vine; | |
| Cake to strengthen and sustain | |
| Through long days of desert pain; | |
| Salem’s Monarch’s bread and wine;— | 20 |
| Thou the antidote shalt be | |
| Of my sickness and my sin, | |
| Consolation, medicine, | |
| Life and sacrament to me. | | | | |
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