Tho’ faint and famished, bread must not be given,
Bolt fast the door.
And must it be, thou just and holy God!
That in our midst thy peeled and stricken poor
Shall kneel and plead amid their tears and blood,
For evermore?
Shall those whom thou hast sent baptised from heaven,
To preach the Gospel the wide world around,
To teach the erring they may be forgiven,
Be seized and bound?