#515: Break Now the Bread of Life

[lutheranhymns]

The alto part is very repetitive, but then, the bass part is also getting a lot of D so it's an equal-opportunity repetition. This references Jesus' feeding of the five thousand--in this context "bread of life" isn't necessarily communion-related. I guess I'm used to parsing old-timey text rearranged to fit the meter because I didn't blink the first time at "Give me [the opportunity] to eat and live with you above." But on second glance, "give me to eat" is kind of a weird mental image.