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And dost Thou fast, and may I feast?

An entry on John Samuel Bewley Monsell's Lenten and Communion hymn.

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Written by John Samuel Bewley Monsell for the First Sunday in Lent, this nine-stanza hymn was published in Hymns of Love and Praise (1863). Based on the scriptural question in Psalm 78:19, "Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?", an abbreviated five-stanza selection (stanzas 1–4 and 7) was later included as Number 158 in Alton's Supplemental Hymnal (1868 and 1875).

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