That food’s a gift from Heaven is clearly said,
In Jesu’s prayer: “Give us our daily bread.”[63]
Men’s bold presumption Heaven again incensed,
When basketsful to beggars were dispensed.50
Jesus proclaimed the miracle would last;—
That food would never lack as in the past.
Men doubted, asked for more to store away;
They trusted not God’s word for bread each day.
Importunate those suitors, full of greed;
Heaven’s gate of mercy closed against their breed.