{"slug": "bread-of-the-world-in-mercy-broken", "title": "Bread of the World in Mercy Broken", "first_line": "Bread of the World in Mercy Broken", "author": "reginald-heber", "author_date": "1827", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [9, 8, 9, 8], "doubled": true, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Communion", "Lord's Supper"], "scripture": ["1 Corinthians 11:23-26"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Reginald Heber (1783\u20131826), \"Bread of the World, in Mercy Broken,\" a Communion hymn first published posthumously in \"Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year\" (London, 1827). Text from The Cyber Hymnal. All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Bread of the world, in mer -- cy bro -- ken, Wine of the soul, in mer -- cy shed, By whom the words of life were spo -- ken, And in whose death our sins are dead: Look on the heart by sor -- row bro -- ken, Look on the tears by sin -- ners shed; And be Thy feast to us the to -- ken That by Thy grace our souls are fed.", "prose": ["Bread of the world, in mercy broken,", "Wine of the soul, in mercy shed,", "By whom the words of life were spoken,", "And in whose death our sins are dead:", "Look on the heart by sorrow broken,", "Look on the tears by sinners shed;", "And be Thy feast to us the token", "That by Thy grace our souls are fed."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}