311 Bread of Heaven, on Thee We Feed
Josiah Conder, 1789-1855
The hymn appeared in the author’s Star of the East, 1821, as “Bread of heaven, on Thee I feed.” The first person singular was altered to the plural throughout, and other changes made, improving the original.
For comments on Josiah Conder see Hymn 247.
MUSIC. ALETTA is by the American composer of popular church and Sunday school music, William B. Bradbury, 1816-68. For further comments on Bradbury see Hymn 103.
Conder’s hymn may also be sung to “Nicht so traurig” (538).
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