True Bread of Life, in pitying [ten¬der] mercy given. H. Bonar. [Holy Communion.] Published in hisHymns of Faith and Hope, 2nd series, 1861, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled "The True Bread." It is usually given in 4 stanzas and sometimes as "True Bread of Life, in tender mercy given," as in T. Darling's Hymns for the Church of England, 1887.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)